Karen Milllen

Karen Millen is one of UK’s most successful fashion retailers of contemporary women’s wear, footwear and accessories. Karen Millen designs sport a sleek and elegant look that incorporate unique influences and subtle colours to dress the classy woman. It’s not just the clothing and the accessories that feature highly individualistic flavours. Karen Millen’s stores are known for their stunning interior design and visually appealing architecture that makes them distinctive from other high-fashion retail spaces.

In 1981, UK-based fashion designer Karen Millen formed a partnership with Kevin Stanford with an investment of just 100 pounds. The money was spent on 100 metres of cotton to make shirts for friends. This soon led to setting up a ’party plan network’ to put up a small collection on retail. With the benefits reaped in from the ’party plan network’, Karen Millen celebrated the opening of her first store in 1983 in Maidstone, Kent. She eventually opened outlets in 64 standalone stores and 27 concessions around the UK and Ireland.

Till date, Karen Millen runs 110 stores worldwide including UK, Ireland, Germany France, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium, Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, the Middle East and the USA. Karen Millen also trades from 16 company-owned boutiques and 35 franchise outlets in 23 countries, as her international success continues to blossom.