Our Founder

In 1980, my father left a village in Sahiwal for Karachi. He had no formal training — he taught himself to cut and finish leather by hand, piece by piece, in a city that wasn't his own.

Decades later, the workshop found its permanent home in Lahore. It's the same family, the same craft — now carried forward by his son. That's me.

I didn't inherit a brand. I inherited a workshop, a set of hands, and a standard that was never written down because it never needed to be.

KHOJA is registered in the UK. But the work itself has never left Lahore, and it isn't going to. Every piece we sell still passes through the same workshop my father built his skill in, decades ago, in a city where he knew no one.

We don't chase seasons. We don't restock. What we make, we make once, in small numbers, and we check every piece by hand before it ships.

Khawaja Qais Elahi
Co-founder & Creative Director