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Westminster Menswear Archive
Harrods
Corporate body · 1849-
Charles Henry Harrod (1799–1885) began his career as a draper in 1824, but it was not until 1849 that the Harrod’s business relocated to London’s Knightsbridge. Harrod’s son, Charles Digby Harrod (1841– 1905) grew the business into a thriving retail operation and, by 1881, Harrods had acquired adjacent buildings and employed a hundred people. In 1889 Charles Harrod sold his interest in the store for
£120,000 via a stock market floatation. The new company was called Harrods Stores Ltd. In 1959, House of Fraser, a British department store holding company, acquired Harrods. In an attempt to appeal to a younger customer accustomed to shopping in unisex boutiques on Carnaby Street and the King’s Road, Harrods opened Way In on the fourth floor in 1967. It was redesigned and renamed the Fashion Lab department in 2013. The menswear department is currently situated in the basement of the store. In 1985, the Fayed brothers acquired House of Fraser for £615 million, which included Harrods. In 1994 Harrods was moved out of the House of Fraser Group and remained in the Fayed family’s ownership, while House of Fraser was listed on the London Stock Exchange. In May 2010, Harrods was sold to Qatar Holdings, the Qatari state’s sovereign wealth fund.
Source: The Independent.
Barbour
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Google
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Meadham Kirchhoff
Corporate body · 2006-2015
Edward Meadham (b. 1979) and Benjamin Kirchhoff (b. 1978) founded Meadham Kirchhoff in 2006 as a womenswear brand. They had initially shown a menswear collection in 2005 under the label Benjamin Kirchhoff as part of the inaugural Fashion East MAN show at London Fashion Week. Meadham Kirchhoff had NEWGEN sponsorship for seven seasons up until 2010. In 2010 the label won the Emerging Talent Ready-to-Wear award at the British Fashion Awards and were a semi-finalist for the LVMH Prize in 2014. In June 2012, the brand launched their menswear line at London Collections: Men, showing their Spring Summer 2013 collection as part of Fashion East MAN for three seasons. They did not show menswear again until their final runway show in September 2014, which featured both menswear and womenswear. Shortly afterwards they denied press rumours that the company was about to close, but mounting financial debts forced the company to shut down in September 2015. In June 2016, a campaign was launched to raise £15,000 to buy back around fifty items from their archive to be donated to museums.
Sources: British Vogue; Dazed; Drapers; Middle East North Africa Financial Network.
Hancock
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Giuliano Fujiwara
Corporate body · 1986-unknown
Label of Japanese designer Giuliano Fujiwara. He was born in Osaka and studied law and oriental literature at Tokyo's Chuo University before going to Bunka College of Fashion. After visiting Milan regularly he decided to permanently settle in Italy in 1976, launching his label there ten years later.
Hawkes & Co.
Corporate body · 1771-1974
Thomas Hawkes established his first shop in 1771 in Brewer Street, London. This sold to Gentlemen and members of the Military and gained a Royal Warrant in 1809. The company merged with Gieves Ltd in 1972, trading under the name Gieves & Hawkes.