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| Company type | Public |
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| Industry | Fashion |
| Founded | Suffolk, United Kingdom (1989) |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
| Key people | Marc Psarolis (Managing Director), Mitchell Jacobs (Founder) |
| Products | Men's Clothing Accessories |
| Website | |
Duchamp London is a British clothing accessories company created in 1989. The company, in fact, traces its origins to France and the chance discovery by the founder of a cache of 10,000 vintage cufflinks in a Paris flea market back in 1987. This led two years later to the launch of a London-based luxury goods business concentrating on men's accessories. Appropriately enough, the founder was reading a book about Dadaism at the time, and decided to name the newcompany after the French surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp.
The company began selling its merchandise to larger retailers in the UK, USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, France, Italy and Germany. In 1994, the company opened its first boutique in London's affluent Notting Hill neighbourhood. By this time, Marc Psarolis had joined the company as managing director. Psarolis focused on expanding the company and its product variety. In 2005, Mitchell and Rion sold the company to Psarolis.
Now there are three stores in London – Regent Street, in Westfield and on Jermyn Street. It stocks in well known UK fashion houses such as Harrods, Harvey Nichols, John Lewis and Selfridges. Duchamp is also carried in the world’s most prestigious department stores, including Barneys and Bloomingdales in the USA, Holt Renfrew in Canada and Lane Crawford in Hong Kong. But by far the biggest investment has been in design. The company has gone on to launch outerwear, jackets, leather goods, swimwear and underwear and in 2010 launched ready to wear tailoring for the first time due to massive public demand.
Stores
United Kingdom
- Regent Street, London
- Jermyn Street, London
- Westfield Shopping Centre
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