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Rubinacci is an Italian luxury clothing company founded in Naples, Italy in 1932 by Gennaro Rubinacci under the name of the London House. [1] The idea Rubinacci had was to create unstructured, unlined jackets meant to be worn outside of the office. Among his early clients were filmmaker Vittorio De Sica and journalist Curzio Malaparte. [2]
Luxury fashion brand started by Thomas Burberry in Basingstoke, Hampshire in 1856. The business opened its first London shop in 1891, and changed its name to Burberrys due to the colloquial use of the Burberrys of London name. The business stayed in family hands until Great Universal Shops bought the business in 1955.
Isaia was founded in Napoli by Enrico Isaia, who opened a fabric store for Neapolitan tailoring, and later a small atelier next to the store.In 1957 the brothers Enrico, Rosario and Corrado Isaia moved the business to Casalnuovo, a village near Napoli where tailoring was a large part of the economy, and Isaia became a men's tailoring company.
E. Marinella is an Italian necktie company founded by Eugenio Marinella in 1914 in Naples [1] in a small shop of just 20 square meters. The brand has standalone stores in Naples, Milan, Rome, London, Turin and Tokyo. The brand is also sold in New York at the Bergdorf Goodman Building. [2] Each tie is handmade and unique.
Biba was a London fashion store of the 1960s and 1970s. Biba was started and run by the Polish-born Barbara Hulanicki and her husband Stephen Fitz-Simon. [1]After the original company closed in 1975, Biba was relaunched several times, independently of Hulanicki.
The historic Daniel Burnham-designed Selfridges flagship store at 400 Oxford Street in London opened on 15 March 1909 and is the second-largest shop in the UK (after Harrods). [3] Other Selfridges stores opened in the Manchester area at the Trafford Centre (1998) and at Exchange Square (2002), and in Birmingham at the Bullring (2003).
In 2002, Selfridges was awarded the London Tourism Award for visitors' favourite London store. Selfridges was named world's best department store in 2010, [ 2 ] and again in 2012. [ 3 ] It claims to contain the UK's largest beauty department, [ 14 ] and Europe's busiest doorway which siphons 250,000 people a week past the Louis Vuitton ...
Work on replacing the old Victoria Street store began in 1973. The new building was completed in 1977, [1] designed by London architects Elsom Pack & Roberts. [10] In 1973, Army and Navy Stores was purchased by the House of Fraser. The John Barker & Co stores in Kensington and Eastbourne were integrated with Army & Navy.