Aspetto
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| Industry | Clothing |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2008 |
| Founder | Abbas Haider |
| Headquarters | Fredericksburg, Virginia |
Key people | Abbas Haider (CEO) Robert Davis (COO) |
| Website | aspetto |
Aspetto is an American producer and retailer of ballistic clothing and non-ballistic fashion.
Aspetto is based in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The president and CEO of the company is Abbas Haider, who founded Aspetto in 2008. Robert Davis later joined the company, and serves as the company's chief operating officer. The company began as a regular clothing line, and later changed its focus to ballistic clothing, an idea that Haider and Davis developed for a 2011 university class at the University of Mary Washington. The two met with a ballistics producer and built a prototype suit, and began fielding queries from government agencies within a few months. Following the end of the class, Haider and Davis began to develop and sell the bullet-resistant products,[1] and began producing what it referred to as “ballistic” fashion.[2] The company name “Aspetto” comes from the Italian word for “appearance”.[3]