Made in Kenya. Worn anywhere.

Two brothers, one fabric, and a stake in the country that raised them.

Alastair and Jimmy Scott grew up in Africa. The brand started with a jacket Alastair made for Jimmy's 21st — cut from kikoy, a fabric most people had only seen at the beach. People kept asking where they could get one. So the brothers made more.

BROTHERS

Kenya, Woven

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Koy founders Alastair and Jimmy Scott, outdoors.

ALASTAIR & JIMMY

A striped kikoy jacket — the garment that sparked Koy.

THE FIRST JACKET

HOW IT'S MADE

The Cloth

Close-up of striped Kenyan kikoy cotton mid-weave.

The Cloth

Kikoy is hand-woven in Nairobi. Locally it wraps babies, warms shoulders, and dresses beds. We put it on lapels, cuffs and collars — the first time it's been built for tailoring.

About kikoy

Rose

Every metre we use comes from Rose's workshop. She leads a team of ten weavers in Nairobi. Their work pays school fees and medical bills, and keeps a craft alive that machines can't fake.

Meet the workshop

The Tailoring

Tailor's hands finishing a collar in the Nairobi workshop.

The Tailoring

Koy shirts, suits, and outerwear are cut by Charles and his team in Nairobi. Every piece is designed by the brothers. Small runs, considered details, nothing you'll see on a high street.

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An extreme close-up of a kikoy stripe on the loom.

THE WEAVE

Folded Koy shirts in kraft wrap, tied with cotton tape.

BUILT TO LAST

No plastic in the packaging. No fast-fashion calendar. Fabric woven by people we know, cut by people we trust, sold to people who wear it for years.

MADE BY HAND, IN KENYA

The completed Ngiluni-Uteni sand dam in rural Kenya, funded by Koy and its customers.

The 20%

Twenty percent of profits goes to charity projects in Africa. Not a marketing round-up — an accounting line. So far that's £90,000: £30,000 to the East Africa Character Development Trust, and £40,000 toward the Ngiluni-Uteni sand dam, completed February 2026.

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The Numbers

£90,000 Donated

£30,000 to the East Africa Character Development Trust — 2,177 children reached across 952 sessions. £40,000 toward the Ngiluni-Uteni sand dam, finished February 2026.

3,000 People. 40M Litres.

The sand dam cuts a four-hour walk for water down to thirty minutes and holds forty million litres at capacity. Water, closer to home, for generations.

Plastic-Free Packaging

No plastic. No paper slips. Shirts ship in kraft wrap, tied with cotton tape — practical enough to keep, quiet enough to forget.

Small on Purpose

Two founders. One workshop partner in Nairobi. A customer base that knows the cloth by feel. That’s the scale kikoy deserves.

2,177 children reached across 952 sessions — the East Africa Character Development Trust, funded in part by Koy since the first stitched garment.

Koy customers in Kenya, supporting a character-education programme.

Made in Kenya. Worth the journey.

Cloth. Craft. Continent.

Kikoy is the start. Craft is how we cut it. Continent is the promise.

Hand-woven in Nairobi by Rose and her team. Tailored in Nairobi by Charles. Twenty percent of profits back to the country that made it. Small on purpose, and built to last.

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