JAB — bespoke tailoring, Lagos
Bespoke tailoring · Lagos

The suit, made to the measure of the man.

A house of bespoke tailoring, where a single garment is drafted, cut, and finished by hand — for one man, and one man alone.

The lookbook

A record of the work.

Business, ceremony, black tie — a glimpse of recent commissions, each made for a single man and a single occasion.

Two-piece business suit
Morning coat, ceremony
Black tie, dinner jacket
Double-breasted, city
Three-piece, tonal
Our philosophy

We do not make suits in sizes. We make one suit, for one man — drafted to his frame, cut to his posture, and finished to the way he moves through the world.

For a generation, this house has dressed the men of Lagos and beyond — bankers and barristers, grooms on their finest morning, quiet titans who understand that true elegance is never loud.

Everything begins the same way: with the cloth, and the conversation. What follows is weeks of patient work, and a garment that could belong to no one else.

Our craft

Four disciplines, one garment.

  • The Cloth

    Sourced from the oldest mills of England and Italy — chosen for weight, for fall, and for how it will wear across a decade, not a season.

  • The Cut

    A paper pattern drafted to you alone. No block, no template — a shape that exists nowhere else, and belongs to no one else.

  • The Fitting

    The garment is refined on your body across successive fittings, adjusted by hand until the line is honest and true.

  • The Finish

    Every buttonhole, canvas, and seam is worked by hand in our atelier. What leaves the house carries the house's name.

  • The process

    From conversation to cloth.

    1. Consultation

      We begin with a conversation — your wardrobe, your occasion, and the life the suit will lead. There is no obligation, and no hurry.

    2. Measure & Design

      Over twenty measurements are taken, and the choices that make the suit yours are made together — cloth, lapel, lining, and finish.

    3. Fittings

      The garment takes shape across two or more fittings, refined on your body until every line sits exactly as it should.

    4. Delivery

      Pressed, hand-finished, and handed to you in person — with a full record kept for every commission that follows.

    I have bought suits in London and in Milan. None of them have fitted — or felt — like the one that was made for me here.

    A client

    Private banking · Lagos

    The first conversation

    Your commission begins with a conversation.

    The atelier receives clients by appointment, Monday through Saturday, at our rooms on Victoria Island.

    Bespoke jackets on hangers in the atelier