Tory Burch has three sons: identical twins Henry and Nicholas (Nick) Burch, born in 1997, and younger brother Sawyer Burch, born in 2001. All three are children of Tory Burch and venture capitalist Chris Burch, who divorced in 2006. The twins have since launched Butter Baby, a character-led dessert brand operating out of Jakarta, Indonesia, while Sawyer maintains a lower public profile.
Who Are Tory Burch’s Sons?
Each Tory Burch son has carved a distinct path: Henry and Nicholas as Jakarta-based entrepreneurs, Sawyer as the quietly influential younger brother. All three were born to Tory Burch and former husband Chris Burch. The twins Henry and Nicholas arrived in 1997, and Sawyer followed in 2001. Henry and Nicholas are now 28 years old and based in Jakarta; Sawyer is approximately 24 and keeps a comparatively quiet public presence.
The family grew up largely in New York, raised with a dual emphasis on togetherness and philanthropic responsibility. From a young age, Tory Burch instilled in all three boys a commitment not just to each other but to giving back — a value that has shaped their adult careers in visible ways.
| Name | Birth Year | Current Age | Known For | Base |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Burch | 1997 | 28 | Co-founder of Butter Baby, branding and aesthetics | Jakarta, Indonesia |
| Nicholas (Nick) Burch | 1997 | 28 | Co-founder of Butter Baby, storytelling and marketing | Jakarta, Indonesia |
| Sawyer Burch | 2001 | ~24 | Described as the family tastemaker by his brothers | Not publicly disclosed |
Fashion royalty raises its next generation differently. Growing up with a mother who designed her first logo on the kitchen table of the family apartment, these three boys absorbed the mechanics of brand-building before most teenagers had even thought about careers.
Henry Burch: The Tastemaker Twin
Henry Burch is one half of the Tory Burch son duo more commonly called “the twins,” widely recognized as the visual and aesthetic force behind Butter Baby. At 28, he handles the branding, packaging, and overall look of the dessert brand he co-founded with his twin brother Nick in Jakarta. According to Nick, Henry is “really the tastemaker when it comes to the branding, aesthetic and packaging.”
Henry grew up watching his mother build a global fashion company from scratch. In a 2025 interview with GQ Hong Kong, he recalled seeing Tory Burch sketch her brand logo at the kitchen table of their New York apartment, absorbing the process of identity-building before most kids were old enough to understand what a logo was. That formative exposure runs through every decision at Butter Baby.
On Instagram under the handle @henryburch, he has built a following of over 15,000 and uses the platform as an extension of the Butter Baby visual universe. His aesthetic there reflects what he brings to the brand: clean, character-forward, and deliberately global in its references.
One detail Henry has shared publicly stands out for its quiet strangeness: neither he nor Nick knows who is the older twin. Tory Burch made the decision to lock away their birth certificates when they were young, not wanting one child to carry the weight of being “the older one.” At 28, both brothers still operate on the assumption that the question simply doesn’t have an answer they’re allowed to access. Twenty-eight years of a mystery kept deliberately alive — it says something about the kind of parent Tory Burch chose to be.
Nicholas Burch: The Creative Storyteller
Nicholas Burch, known as Nick, is the marketing mind behind Butter Baby. Where Henry handles the visual identity, Nick owns the brand’s narrative — its story, its voice, the mythology built around the Butter Baby alien character. His brother describes him plainly: “Nick has an amazing ability at storytelling, the marketing and fun stuff like that, he’s really good at it.”
Nick’s Instagram account (@nicholasburch1) reflects this clearly. With over 9,100 followers, his online presence is less about product shots and more about the feeling of the brand, the “why” behind Butter Baby rather than just the “what.” The profile’s positioning statement leans into personality over polish, which is consistent with his self-described approach to marketing.
In the GQ Hong Kong interview from December 2025, Nick spoke candidly about the moment he realized Jakarta felt more like home than New York. “I woke up one night and was like, this doesn’t feel like home anymore for me,” he said, describing the shift that led him and Henry to plant the Butter Baby flag in Indonesia in 2022. That kind of instinct, acting on an unexplained pull toward somewhere new, is the same energy he channels into how the brand connects with people.
Nick also described the family rule that most directly shaped how he and his brothers relate to money and opportunity. When he and Henry were just 13, both Tory and Chris Burch told all three boys that whatever they built in life, it would be split three ways. “I look at it as a blessing that we’re able to do stuff together,” he said. That decision, made by two billionaires before their children had earned a dollar, may be the most interesting business decision in the family’s history.
Sawyer Burch: The Youngest and Least Visible
Sawyer Burch is the youngest of Tory Burch’s three sons, born in 2001 and now approximately 24 years old. Unlike his twin brothers, Sawyer has maintained a much lower public profile, with minimal social media presence and few documented media appearances. What is known about him comes largely through what his brothers have said.
The most pointed description of Sawyer comes from Henry himself. In the same GQ Hong Kong interview where the twins discussed Butter Baby, Henry said unprompted: “Our little brother, Sawyer, really is the tastemaker of the family, and we actually look to him for advice.” That’s a striking acknowledgment, the family’s two most publicly visible entrepreneurs credit their youngest sibling as the one with real taste judgment.
Sawyer was named after Tory Burch’s favorite book, Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer, according to a longstanding interview quote from his mother. The literary reference fits a family pattern of intentionality, nothing about the Burch children feels accidental, from the birth certificate decision to the three-way financial pact at age 13.
Whether Sawyer has business ambitions of his own has not been publicly confirmed. His quietness in the face of two high-profile brothers is its own kind of statement.
Butter Baby: The Dessert Brand Henry and Nick Built
Butter Baby is a character-led dessert brand founded by Henry and Nicholas Burch in Jakarta, Indonesia. The concept revolves around a fictional alien called Butter Baby, described by Henry as “an alien from Butterlandia” who has “crash-landed in Jakarta with a universe of cosmic desserts.” The brand’s product line includes donuts, sweets, and drinks, all tied together by the alien’s narrative universe.
The twins moved to Jakarta in 2022, drawn partly by the city’s youthful creative energy and by Nick’s visceral sense that Southeast Asia felt like home. The Butter Baby flagship opened there and quickly gained traction both with locals and with the international crowd that Jakarta has increasingly attracted.
According to the GQ Hong Kong interview, the idea emerged from a childhood love of cookies and donuts, combined with the kind of storytelling-first brand philosophy they had observed in their mother’s work. “We think storytelling is one of the most important things in life,” Henry said. The Butter Baby alien is not merely a mascot, it is the load-bearing structure of the entire brand identity.
“Butter Baby is an alien from Butterlandia and has crash-landed in Jakarta with a universe of cosmic desserts. He is here to open a portal into a new world of flavour, feeling and floating donuts.”
— Henry Burch, GQ Hong Kong, December 2025
This aligns with how the brand has positioned itself: not as another artisan donut shop, but as an entry point into an invented world. For Henry and Nick, the dessert is almost secondary to the mythology. That approach reflects what they saw firsthand watching Tory Burch build a fashion house around a lifestyle identity rather than just a product line.
The brand’s expansion beyond its first Jakarta location represents the next chapter. Henry has said publicly that his hope is to “bring as much love and fun to as much of the world as possible”, an intentionally open-ended expansion strategy that reflects both ambition and flexibility.
Growing Up Burch: Family Values That Shaped Three Sons
The Burch household operated around two rules that all three sons have repeated consistently in interviews: family first, and giving back. Tory Burch launched the Tory Burch Foundation, which provides capital and mentorship to women entrepreneurs, and her sons absorbed that ethos as a baseline expectation rather than an aspiration.
Chris Burch, their father, is a venture capitalist and founder of Burch Creative Capital, a New York-based private equity firm. His children grew up inside two active business ecosystems, his and their mother’s, which gave all three an unusually direct education in how companies are actually built and what goes wrong when they grow.
Tory and Chris Burch divorced in 2006, two years after co-founding the Tory Burch label together. The split was not clean; a legal dispute between the exes stretched for years before being resolved. Through all of it, the children remained central to both parents’ public and private lives, photographed together with their mother at fashion events and written into the mythology of a family brand that operates at the intersection of taste, commerce, and identity.
The most deliberate parenting decision, beyond locking away the birth certificates, was the financial pact. According to Nick, when both twins were 13, their parents sat all three boys down and told them that whatever any one of them built, it would be divided equally three ways. Nick said it at 28 the same way he likely received it at 13: not as a burden, but as a design philosophy for how the family would move through the world. Henry agreed: “What we’ve been raised with is, one, family first. And two, giving back.”
Lifestyle, Interests, and Social Media Presence
Henry and Nick are both active on Instagram, maintaining individual accounts that together serve as a distributed visual identity for Butter Baby and for their broader personal brands. Henry posts under @henryburch (15K+ followers) with a focus on aesthetics and brand imagery. Nick’s account @nicholasburch1 (9K+ followers) leans more narrative and personality-driven.
Both twins have spoken openly about their shared love of surfing and tennis, the two sports they describe as the primary source of competitive friction between them. “When it comes to sports, we can get pretty competitive,” Henry confirmed in the GQ Hong Kong interview. “That’s really where most of our fights come from.” For two people who pride themselves on a philosophy of non-conflict, the surfboard and the tennis court serve as a necessary pressure valve.
Sawyer Burch’s social media presence is minimal and not publicly verified. His brothers’ occasional references to him suggest someone who is engaged in their lives and business decisions while maintaining meaningful personal privacy, which, in the context of having Tory Burch as a mother, is its own kind of achievement.
Frequently Asked Questions About Tory Burch’s Sons
How many sons does Tory Burch have?
Tory Burch has three sons: identical twins Henry and Nicholas Burch (born 1997) and younger son Sawyer Burch (born 2001). All three are children from her marriage to Chris Burch, from whom she divorced in 2006.
Who is older, Henry or Nicholas Burch?
Neither Henry nor Nicholas Burch knows who is the older twin. Their mother, Tory Burch, made the deliberate decision to lock away their birth certificates so that neither son would feel the weight of being “the older” sibling. As of 2025, both are 28 and the question remains unanswered by design.
What is Butter Baby, and who started it?
Butter Baby is a dessert brand founded by Henry and Nicholas Burch in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2022. The brand sells donuts, sweets, and drinks, built around the fictional character of Butter Baby, an alien from “Butterlandia” who has crash-landed in Jakarta. Henry handles branding and aesthetics; Nick manages storytelling and marketing.
What is Sawyer Burch doing now?
Sawyer Burch, Tory Burch’s youngest son, has not made public statements about his career or current projects. His twin brothers have described him as “the tastemaker of the family” and say they look to him for advice, but Sawyer has not disclosed professional details publicly as of early 2026.
Are any of Tory Burch’s sons involved in the fashion business?
None of Tory Burch’s three sons are publicly involved in the Tory Burch fashion label. Henry and Nicholas have built their own brand, Butter Baby, in the food and hospitality space. The family’s financial pact, that all ventures are split three ways among the brothers, suggests collaboration, but fashion has not been their stated focus.
Who is the father of Tory Burch’s sons?
Chris Burch is the father of Henry, Nicholas, and Sawyer Burch. He is a venture capitalist and founder of Burch Creative Capital, a New York-based private equity firm. He and Tory Burch co-founded the Tory Burch label in 2004 and divorced in 2006.
Where do Henry and Nick Burch live?
Henry and Nicholas Burch relocated from New York to Jakarta, Indonesia in 2022 to launch Butter Baby. Both have described Jakarta as the city that felt most like home, and they remain based there as they continue to expand the brand.
