Thomas Burberry founded in 1856 a fashion company named after him in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. If the business was already doing well in the 1870s, in the following years it showed even greater signs of prosperity, when Thomas Burberry invented a waterproof garment: the gabardine. This trench coat is still the iconic piece of the English house. With more than 160 years of history, Burberry is today a brand that sets fashion trends, specializing in luxury clothing and accessories, internationally distinguished by the modernity and irreverence that it conveys in its collections.