Our story begins in Scotland — on a piece of ground called Inglis Green, near Edinburgh, where cloth was bleached and printed as long ago as 1773. Over the next century, the trade around Inglis Green grew. In 1889, the Stevenson sons made it a firm: A & J Macnab.
Four generations later, we are still making cloth. Just differently.
Founder Aiko Stevenson's great-grandfather, Herbert Stevenson, ran a woollen mill near Edinburgh, spinning yarn and weaving the tweeds that made Scottish textiles famous around the world.
His son, Drummond, took the business further, selling Macnab tweeds across Europe. In the 1950s, Aiko's father Peter Stevenson carried them further still — to America, and to Japan.
Forty years ago, Peter left the family's Scottish base for Hong Kong. From there, he began to build the partnerships that would carry the family into a new material — traveling into Inner Mongolia to meet the artisan families whose herds produce, in the bitter winters of that place, the world's softest fibres.
Those relationships have lasted decades. The families Peter first met all those years ago are the same ones we work with today.
Today, Aiko designs from Hong Kong, working directly with the same Inner Mongolian artisan families her father first came to know. Each piece is knitted in small batches, using yarn from a GOTS-certified mill — 95% organic cotton and 5% Mongolian cashmere.
The result is knitwear soft enough for a newborn's first photograph, sturdy enough for a toddler's muddiest afternoon — and made to be handed down.
MIKA & MILO carries forward four generations of textile knowledge, and one simple belief: that the clothes our children wear in their earliest years should be made with care. That they should last more than one childhood. And that heritage isn't the past — it's what makes something worth keeping.
Today, MIKA & MILO is a six-time Junior Design Award winner, as seen in British Vogue and Vanity Fair.
We believe children's knitwear should be worn often, washed easily, and loved for longer.
Each piece is designed to soften with age and outlast the child who wears it first — ready to be passed from sibling to sibling, and kept for years to come.
To back that promise, we launched our Mended for Life programme: every MIKA & MILO piece is repairable for life, free of charge, forever, by the same artisans who knit it. No receipts required.
That isn't a marketing line. It's simply how we believe things should be made.
Made for today. Kept for tomorrow.
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