The founder
Lady Joanne McLeod-Hestpace never set out to build a house. She set out to keep one horse warm.
A dressage rider with an exacting eye, she found the coolers and base layers of the day wanting — they trapped sweat or shed heat, and never both at once. In the winter of 1995, at her London home, she cut the first Hestpace prototype by hand.
What began as a private remedy became, quietly and by introduction only, the preferred house of some of the finest yards in the country. Lady Joanne still signs off every new pattern before it leaves the atelier.
