Maxwell Clothiers began in 1961 when Ken Maxwell set up shop at the now-demolished Ambassador Hotel in Kowloon. Ken Maxwell grew up in Bangkok where, following in the footsteps of his great grandparents, he spent his early years learning the "art" of tailoring. Their clientele consisted largely of visiting diplomats and government officials who would make a visit to Maxwell’s a top priority on their busy agenda. After years of travelling and tailoring in the Asian capitals Ken finally decided to set up shop in Hong Kong - where the craft was, and still is, an artform. Learning the skills from the world’s finest Shanghai tailors Ken Maxwell gradually turned the budding company into a Hong Kong institution.
Clientele consisted mostly of visitors from cruise liners who would order a suit one morning and take it home the next. Hong Kong’s famous ‘24-hour suit’ had emerged. Maxwell’s reputation grew not only in the territory but abroad too as satisfied customers spread the word overseas.
When air became the favoured way to travel, business rocketed as more and more travellers realised that they could purchase a suit of outstanding quality at a fraction of the cost of Maxwell's counterparts in their home countries. With an extensive and solid customer base firmly established overseas, Maxwell turned his attention to other shores. 
Overseas mail order business began in the early 1970s when Ken and his team of tailors flew half way across the world to visit clients in major US cities. In 1976 he was one of the first and few mail order companies from Hong Kong to break into the Canadian market. 
Today, with thousands of clients in North America, Maxwell's ranks as one of Hong Kong's most successful tailoring companies and an institution on both continents. The quality of a Maxwell suit is simply unbeatable.

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