Ministry of Supply (clothing)
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| Industry | Fashion |
| Founded | Boston, Massachusetts, United States (2011) |
| Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
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| Products | Clothing and business attire |
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| Website | ministry |
Ministry of Supply is a Boston-based high performance business wear men's fashion brand launched in 2012 and founded by former Massachusetts Institute of Technology students using some of the same temperature regulating material as NASA astronauts in their clothing.
The company currently sells the majority of their clothing online and currently has brick and mortar retail locations in Washington D.C., San Francisco, Santa Monica, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, and Bethesda.
Ministry of Supply was started by Aman Advani, Kit Hickey, Kevin Rustagi, and Gihan Amarasiriwardena, with the intention of creating technologically advanced office apparel.
Kit, Gihan, Kevin, and Aman met as students at MIT, where they quickly realized they shared a vision for everyday clothing that could be as capable as their athletic gear. Aman and Gihan had been sewing prototypes for years, and Kevin and Kit’s drive to innovate customer experience was unstoppable. The group joined forces in 2012 and introduced their first performance dress shirt. The Apollo Kickstarter campaign set the record for most-funded fashion project at the time, and gave way to the full line of garments that continues to evolve for optimal comfort and capability.
After a year of product development and small-scale sales in the spring of 2012, the company decided to conduct a Kickstarter campaign to fund the creation of a synthetic knit-blend dress shirt with heat and moisture management, odor control, and offered a full range of motion. The campaign raised over $400,000 and became the largest amount raised for a fashion product at the time on a Kickstarter project.
In June 2013, the company again went to Kickstarter for a campaign to raise funds to produce a high performance dress sock. This campaign raised more than $200,000 for the start up company.
In late September 2013, the company raised $1.1 million in seed round financing from VegasTechFund, SK Ventures, and Red Sox pitcher Craig Breslow. The $50,000 investment from Breslow came after his fiancée bought one of the shirts as a birthday present and he wore the shirt while traveling on the road with the team.
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