Community Clothing was founded in 2016 by Patrick Grant, the Savile Row tailor behind Norton & Sons and a judge on The Great British Sewing Bee. Grant started the label after buying Cookson & Clegg, a Blackburn clothing factory established in 1860, to save it and its workers from closure. The brand now partners with mills and factories across Lancashire, Yorkshire, the East Midlands, Scotland, and South Wales to produce well-priced, UK-made wardrobe staples.