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      • Fashion is our DNA. River Island is an icon of the British high street. Inspired by the latest trends and our heritage style archives, we've been serving style and leading trends for over sixty years. We make fashion for real people with real lives, who want to look real good.
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  2. River Island is an icon of the British high street. Inspired by the latest trends and our heritage style archives, we've been serving style and leading trends for over sixty years. We make fashion for real people with real lives, who want to look real good. Because life's a celebration - let's dress for it.

    • River Island Started by Selling Vegetables.
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    • Rihanna’s River Island Advertising Campaign

    It all began in 1948 when a man named Bernard Lewis decided to try his hand at starting a business. However, it wasn’t clothing that he first tried to sell. Back then, he opted for fruit and vegetables which he sold to local people in London. Not long after, he changed his products entirely and used an unused site in the East End to start a fresh b...

    Seventeen years later in 1965, Bernard Lewis had gone from selling food to the locals, to having a shared company with 70 stores up and down the country. By this time, the Lewis brothers wanted to re-brand Lewis Separates, and since Chelsea was rapidly becoming the center of pop culture and fashion, the business was renamed Chelsea Girl. It was the...

    By the end of the 1970’s, two of the Lewis brothers left Chelsea Girl which left Bernard and David Lewis to go it alone. It was at this point that David Lewis ventured into a different niche and began to open property and investment companies. The Lewis Trust Group was owned by both Bernard and David. This new company was the umbrella name for Chel...

    Concept Man was opened in 1982 which was a branch of Chelsea Girl aimed at men. It sold clothing, footwear, and accessories for men, which meant that the company was now catering for everybody. Six year later, in 1988, the Lewis brothers decided to fully merge both Chelsea Girl and Concept Man into just one store, which was branded River Island. By...

    Both men and women were shopping there for stylish clothing and accessories, and in 1993, Bernard Lewis introduced Ireland to his stores by opening the first shop there. Over the next two decades, River Island would expand to open stores in Russia, Poland and selected areas of the Middle East. Until 2010, River Island was not selling any clothing a...

    In 2013, River Island sales were boosted after pop singer Rihanna was featured advertising for the brand. After an increase in sales, the Rihanna for River Island collection was launched, featuring clothes modeled by the pop star herself. The clothing was instantly in high demand, and teenagers and young women were eager to get their hands on the i...

  3. Jan 4, 2018 · But it wasn’t until his son, Leonard, came up with the name River Island in the late 1980s that the chain as we know it today was born. River Island is now one of the UK’s biggest fashion retailers, with a turnover of just over £930m in 2015.

  4. Oct 31, 2023 · River Island remains a private company owned by the Lewis family. It operates around 250 high street stores throughout the UK and sells online through Riverisland.com, as well as on third-party websites such as Asos, Next and Very.

  5. Bernard Lewis (entrepreneur) Bernard Lewis (born 10 February 1926) is the English entrepreneur behind the River Island fashion brand and clothing chain. Early life. He was born on 10 February 1926, and educated at the Jewish Free School, and Northern Polytechnic Institute.

  6. 22 hours ago · About Bernard Lewis & family. Bernard Lewis founded UK-based clothing retailer River Island Fashion in 1948; it now sells online and has stores in several European countries. The business had...

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › River_islandRiver island - Wikipedia

    A river island is any exposed landmass surrounded by river water. Properly defined, it excludes shoals between seasonally varying flows and may exclude semi-coastal islands in river deltas such as Marajó . These islands result from changes in the course of a river.

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