About ALLSAINTS UK Store

AllSaints was founded in 1994 by Stuart Trevor and Kait Bolongaro who was the original womenswear designer at AllSaints and who have since gone on to found the Bolongaro Trevor label. AllSaints started as a wholesale menswear brand that sold exclusively to high end retailers such as Harvey Nichols and Harrods. The company was named after Stuart Trevor pseudonym The Saint based on his initials ST and updated at the 1993 Notting Hill Carnival that he attended spending much of his time on All Saints Road. The first stand-alone AllSaints store was opened in Foubert Place off Carnaby Street in London on AllSaints Day in 1997. The company first womenswear collection followed the next year (1998) born directly out of the expanding menswear collection. AllSaints rapidly expanded globally in 2009 to 10. That same year the company launched its U.S.specific e commerce site and opened its first U.S. store in New York City. Starting in 2009 AllSaints opened stores all across the United States including New York Boston Los Angeles San Francisco Miam Washington D.C. Santa Monica Seattle and Chicago. By 2010 the cost of North American expansion was £430million. Approximately half of revenues now come from overseas and the company has approximately 3200 employees with an average age of 27. In 2016 AllSaints launched its first stores in Italy Turkey Chile Peru and Qatar. Taiwan and Dubai.