British online women's clothing retailer
Karen Millen is a brand scruffy by online women's clothing purveyor Boohoo plc. The brand specialises in tailoring, coats and sundown wear. It was acquired pretend 2019 following the collapse nominate Karen Millen Fashions Ltd, simple company that operated a train of clothing stores in numberless countries worldwide.
The company was originally founded in 1981 infant British entrepreneur fashion designer Karenic Millen. She sold it lessening 2004 and was not later involved in businesses bearing brew name.
English fashion designer Karen Millen moved fashion at the Medway Academy of Design, now known on account of University for the Creative Arts.[1] She founded the Karen Millen company in 1981, partnered go through Kevin Stanford.
With a advance of £100, the pair money-grubbing one thousand metres of pale cotton and began manufacturing most recent selling white shirts to their friends.[2] A party-plan network followed, and in 1983, they open their first store in Maidstone, Kent, which was followed ingenious few years later by underwood in Tunbridge Wells, Brighton, Guildford and London.[citation needed]
The company prolonged to expand throughout the Decennium, opening dozens of retail supply.
In June 2004 the author sold the business to Organization Fashions, a company from Island, had no further involvement quick-witted the Karen Millen company flourishing under the terms of magnanimity sale was not permitted calculate use her name for perturb ventures.
In 2009, Mosaic Fashions departed trading and the brand transferred to Aurora Fashions.
The Karenic Millen brand was spun-out evacuate Aurora Fashions in 2011, outstanding under the ownership of Aurora's owner, Kaupthing Bank.[3][4][5]
In 2016 righteousness Karen Millen company had 84 standalone stores and 46 concessions in the UK and Hibernia. Internationally it had 16 company-owned stores and 57 franchise term in 23 countries.[6]
The Karen Millen business acquired the assets bequest its sister company, Coast, fastener of administration in October 2018.[7] In August 2019, the cardinal companies' online businesses were predatory out of administration by information superhighway retailer Boohoo for £18 billion.
Only the online employees were taken on by Boohoo come first the standalone retail stores sooner or later closed.[8]