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Company type | Private [1] |
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Industry | Fashion |
Founded | Suffolk, United Kingdom (1989) |
Headquarters | , United Kingdom |
Products | Men's Clothing Accessories |
Website |
duchamplondon |
Duchamp is a British men's luxury clothing and accessories company founded in 1989.
The company was founded in 1989 by Mitchell Jacobs, [2] a former buyer at Browns. [3] The company was named after the French artist Marcel Duchamp with the following claim by Jacobs : "Duchamp turned everyday objects into art and I turned everyday icons of men's fashion into wearable art". [3] Duchamp initially specialised in cufflinks [4] and branched in 1992 into ties, with characteristic bold colours and "futuristic" designs. [3] [5] [6] Jacobs established a wholesale trade and opened in 1998 a small boutique in Notting Hill [7] [8] In 2006, when the founder sold the company to its management and the private-equity fund Kcaj LLP, [7] Marc Psarolis became part-owner and chief executive. [9] [10] The same year, the company opened a 750-square-foot (70 m2) store on Regent Street and introduced a line of shirts. [3] In 2011, the company claimed to sell "more than 60,000 ties a year [...] as well as cufflinks, suits, jackets, socks and shirts". [11]
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Company type | Private [1] |
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Industry | Fashion |
Founded | Suffolk, United Kingdom (1989) |
Headquarters | , United Kingdom |
Products | Men's Clothing Accessories |
Website |
duchamplondon |
Duchamp is a British men's luxury clothing and accessories company founded in 1989.
The company was founded in 1989 by Mitchell Jacobs, [2] a former buyer at Browns. [3] The company was named after the French artist Marcel Duchamp with the following claim by Jacobs : "Duchamp turned everyday objects into art and I turned everyday icons of men's fashion into wearable art". [3] Duchamp initially specialised in cufflinks [4] and branched in 1992 into ties, with characteristic bold colours and "futuristic" designs. [3] [5] [6] Jacobs established a wholesale trade and opened in 1998 a small boutique in Notting Hill [7] [8] In 2006, when the founder sold the company to its management and the private-equity fund Kcaj LLP, [7] Marc Psarolis became part-owner and chief executive. [9] [10] The same year, the company opened a 750-square-foot (70 m2) store on Regent Street and introduced a line of shirts. [3] In 2011, the company claimed to sell "more than 60,000 ties a year [...] as well as cufflinks, suits, jackets, socks and shirts". [11]