Wearing What's Worth Remembering | The Mitesh
Most clothes are made to be replaced. The Mitesh is made to be kept.
Founded in Delhi in 1978 by Mitesh Sadh, The Mitesh is an Indian fashion house built on a simple idea. A garment should feel personal, like it was made for you rather than stamped out for a season.
Every piece is finished by hand in small numbers. No two are ever quite identical.
Craft over speed
We don't chase the fashion calendar. Each collection begins with a technique rather than a trend, and everything we make carries a vintage-inspired hand.
Our detailing is done the slow way, through hand embroidery and hand-painted work. A single piece can take up to a week to complete.
We always try to work as fast as the craft allows. But we won't rush the part that makes a garment worth keeping.
The result is clothing that shows its making. A hand-painted line, the weight of real embroidery, a finish that feels aged and considered.
We treat these as signatures, not flaws. It's the difference between something manufactured and something made.
What the work looks like
Our pieces are known for three things: hand embroidery, painted detailing, and a genuine vintage touch.
Because everything is craft-led, quantities stay small. Pieces often don't return once they're gone, so if something speaks to you, it's usually a one-time chance.
Made to be worn by anyone
The Mitesh is designed without a men's or women's aisle. We build around structure, fit and self-expression rather than category, so a piece belongs to whoever it looks right on.
For a generation that dresses for itself, that freedom is the point.
The Vintage Collection
The Vintage Collection is where the house feels most itself: old imagery, reimagined and made wearable.
We use artificial intelligence as a design partner to turn archival motifs and memory into pattern. Then we bring each piece to life with the hand-embroidery and painted detailing The Mitesh is built on.
One piece captures the whole idea. Drawn from a childhood hobby of stamp collecting, it gathers 28 vintage Japanese stamps from the early 1900s to the 1950s, with iconic imagery like Mount Fuji, Japanese shrines and traditional motifs, arranged into a captivating patchwork.
Set on beige sleeves with lace joining each stamp, it reads as playful and easy to wear. It's a shirt for warm, carefree days that also carries a small piece of history.
It's the clearest expression of what The Mitesh has always done: take something worth remembering and make it wearable.
Made with you: bespoke pieces
Beyond the collections, we take on a limited number of bespoke commissions each season. You bring the idea, the occasion or the memory, and we build the piece around it, choosing the fabric, the surface work and the fit with you directly.
It turns buying clothes into making something together. You end up owning a piece that quite literally doesn't exist anywhere else.
To start a commission, reach out at info@themitesh.com.
Why it's made this way
Fast fashion is cheap because someone, somewhere, pays for it, usually the maker and the planet.
Slow, craft-led work is our answer: fewer pieces, made well, meant to last for years rather than a season. Choosing The Mitesh is choosing the alternative to disposable style.
If that's how you like to buy, fewer things, better things, each with a story behind it, you'll feel at home here.
Explore the Vintage Collection, or start a bespoke piece by writing to us.