Ellie Horvath
At Best Startup London we track over 100,000 London based startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 101 Fashion companies in London. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Fashion Companies & Startups (London)
Lyst
| Founders | Chris Morton, Devin Hunt, Sebastjan Trepca |
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Lyst is a global fashion search platform that allows users to browse through thousands of online fashion stores.
Ted Baker
| Founders | Ray Kelvin |
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Ted Baker plc is a British luxury clothing retail company.
Arcadia Group
| Founders | Unknown |
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Arcadia Group Ltd. is a British multinational retailing company
Luxury Promise
| Founders | Adam Sadiq, Sabrina Sadiq |
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Luxury Promise is the marketplace for the world’s most exclusive & luxurious accessories powered by Artificial Intelligence
Debenhams
| Founders | William Debenham |
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Debenhams is a multi-channel brand that operates department stores offering women’s clothing, menswear, beauty, kids, and homeware products.
inFocus
| Founders | Emelie Gintzburger Åkerbrant |
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A platform that measures, reduces and offsets carbon emissions for photo, film, events and fashion sh
Reflaunt
| Founders | Felix Winckler, Philippe Benedetti, Stephanie Crespin |
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Reflaunt gives fashion brands the technology to build and reclaim the secondary market.
Threads Styling
| Founders | Sophie Hill |
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Threads Styling is a fashion technology company.
Wolf & Badger
| Founders | George Graham, Henry Graham |
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Wolf & Badger is a multi-channel retail platform for the finest independent, ethical and unique brands from around the globe.
Photobox
| Founders | Graham Hobson, Graham Hobson, Mark Chapman, Mark Chapman |
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PhotoBox is Europe’s leading community for sharing, printing and personal publishing with over 30 million members.
CUDONI
| Founders | James Harford-Tyrer |
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Europe’s only full-service luxury resale platform. Effortlessly buy and sell authentic designer items at up to 90% off retail price.
TOPSHOP TOPMAN
| Founders | Raymond Montague Burton |
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TOPSHOP TOPMAN is a latest women’s fashion and new season trends company.
Feelunique.com
| Founders | Aaron Chatterley |
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Feelunique.com is an online e-commerce platform that offers beauty products and related advice.
Heat
| Founders | Unknown |
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Heat is a clothing platform intended to encourage sustainable fashion
Shopperbird
| Founders | Paolo Casula |
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Upcycling waste into unique clothes on-demand!
BUMP
| Founders | Jack Ryder, Sam Howarth |
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BUMP is a social peer-to-peer marketplace for authentic streetwear and sneakers.
Spoke London
| Founders | Ben Farren |
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Spoke London is a privately held company that provides better fitting, better looking men’s clothes, sold exclusively online.
Heist Studios
| Founders | Edzard van der Wyck, Toby Darbyshire |
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Heist Studios is an online bodywear brand that manufactures tights for women.
Monica Vinader
| Founders | Monica Vinader |
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Official account of the British luxury jewellery brand. Follow us for behind-the-scenes hidden gems and shining style inspiration.
StyleWe.com
| Founders | Yang Xingjian |
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StyleWe is dedicated to create a shopping community featuring independent fashion designers.
SupplyCompass
| Founders | Flora Davidson, Gus Bartholomew |
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Empowering fashion brands and manufacturers to produce better, together.
Flowerbx
| Founders | Adam Wilkie, Whitney Hawkings |
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Flowerbx is an online, wholesale, flower-delivery service.
The Business of Fashion
| Founders | Imran Amed |
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The Business of Fashion is a online platform for the global fashion industry, offering content and tools to industry professionals.
Nuji
| Founders | Anton Meryl Nithianandan, Dean Fankhauser, Vincent Thome |
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Nuji is a marketplace to discover the Internet’s best fashion and lifestyle products.
Matches Fashion
| Founders | Ruth Chapman, Tom Chapman |
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Matches Fashion is a multi-brand fashion retailer that offers the latest fashion from designer brands.
Tomorrow
| Founders | Stefano Martinetto |
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Tomorrow is an international sales platform that operates from four outstanding showrooms in the main fashion cities.
Intelistyle
| Founders | Kostas Koukoravas, Michael Michelis |
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Intelistyle provides A.I. styling solutions to fashion retailers, helping them address the needs of customers looking for styling advice.
ME+EM
| Founders | Clare Hornby |
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ME + EM is an online and brick and mortar fashion retailer founded by Clare Honrby.
FINDS
| Founders | Carl Mustad, Carl Mustad, Jemma Stacey |
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FINDS is a unique, video & live streaming marketplace app for the next generation to buy and sell fashion.
Taylor & Hart
| Founders | David Sutton, Nikolay Piriankov, Shane Hunt |
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Taylor & Hart make proposing with a custom designed, high quality engagement ring, easy, affordable and enjoyable.
Contact
| Founders | Reuben Selby |
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Contact is the place where creatives manage their career and get paid.
Perfect Moment
| Founders | Jane Gottschalk, Thierry Donard |
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Perfect Moment is an online fashion marketplace that offers ski, surf, and activewear collections.
Snap Vision
| Founders | Jenny Griffiths |
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Snap Vision specializes in the fields of AI computer games and machine learning.
Finisterre
| Founders | Tom Kay |
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Finisterre is a cold water surf company that designs products for cold water surfers around the world.
Killing Kittens
| Founders | Emma Sayle |
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Killing Kittens is a female empowerment brand.
asap54.com
| Founders | Daniela Cecilio |
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Asap54 is an app that provides customers information about items of clothing based on photos the customer has submitted.
Finisterre
| Founders | Tom Kay |
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Finisterre is a cold water surf company that designs products for cold water surfers around the world.
JustWears
| Founders | Alex Walsh, Yang Liu |
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JustWears is on a mission to bring next-gen sustainable materials and ergonomic designs into everyday men’s basics wear. They create the most comfortable men’s underwear featuring Palace for your Phallus pouch™ design.
SWEDISH FALL
| Founders | Jonas Detlefsen, Lara Stallbaum, Marius Krüger, Silja Stallbaum |
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A better fashion brand that fights fashion waste by turning its customers into recyclers
Ubamarket
| Founders | Will Broome |
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Ubamarket is a tech startup that provides a retail shopping app.
Victoria Beckham
| Founders | Sarah Creal, Victoria Beckham |
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Victoria Beckham is a fashion brand that creates and markets a collection of apparel and accessories in over 50 countries.
Nuw (The Nu Wardrobe LTD)
| Founders | Aisling Byrne, Alison Kelly |
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Nuw is the app to swap preloved fashion. ‘Spend your money anywhere, spend your clothes on Nuw’.
NUDEA Lingerie
| Founders | Priya Downes, Sophie Morgenthaler |
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NUDEA designs, produces and sells “No Compromise” women’s lingerie focusing on fit, comfort and style.
Yoox Net-a-Porter Group
| Founders | Federico Marchetti |
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Yoox Net-a-Porter Group is the global Internet retailing partner for leading fashion and luxury brands.
mySupermarket
| Founders | Amir Ofer |
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mySupermarket designs a supermarket shopping and comparison website that helps users to compare prices across different stores.
Orlebar Brown
| Founders | Adam Brown, Julia Simpson-Orlebar |
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Orlebar Brown provides designer swimwear and resort wear collections.
Love the Sales
| Founders | David Bishop, Mark Solomon, Stuart McClure |
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Love the Sales takes the sales on many websites and puts them on one website.
Ubooker
| Founders | Andrea Losso, Claudia Wagner, Diana Dietrich, Nicola Scagnolari |
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The leading seamless digital booking platform connecting brands with content creators and models worldwide.
Percival Menswear
| Founders | Chris Gove |
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Percival Menswear is a contemporary menswear fashion brand.
Stylect
| Founders | Darius Jankauskas, Giacomo Summa, Hadi Laasi |
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Stylect is a mobile app to to help women discover their perfect shoe.
Trouva
| Founders | Alex Loizou, Glen Walker, Mandeep Singh, Maxim Berglund |
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Trouva, the online destination for unique products from the best curators around the world
Farfetch
| Founders | José Neves |
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Farfetch is an online luxury fashion retail platform.
Harper
| Founders | Liam Young |
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Harper delivers the in-store experience to online customers.
Pretty Green
| Founders | Liam Gallagher |
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Named after a track by The Jam, Pretty Green provides simple, classic clothing with a modern twist.
PANGAIA
| Founders | Miroslava Duma |
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PANGAIA is a materials science company that brings innovations and patents into the world through lifestyle products.
OPUMO
| Founders | Harry Beattie, Nick Ayoub |
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OPUMO is building the digital department store of the future connecting brands with customers through a content-rich shopping platform.
MYSALE Group
| Founders | Kevin Cliffe |
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MYSALE Group is an aggregate of 11 online shopping destinations, across 8 countries.
Hedoine
| Founders | Alexandra Tymann, Anna Rauch |
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Hedoine craft the most innovative, sustainable, and premium fashion essentials.
Kniterate
| Founders | Gerard Rubio, Tom Catling, Triam Zubeldia |
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Kniterate is an affordable and compact digital knitting machine for your workshop.
Compare Ethics
| Founders | Abbie Morris, James Omisakin |
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The sustainable platform that makes it easy for conscious consumers to find verified sustainable products.
Petit Pli Ltd.
| Founders | Ryan Mario Yasin |
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Petit Pli Ltd. creates the most advanced technical children’s clothing.
Common Objective (CO)
| Founders | Brijitte Dreyfus, Harold Tillman, Tamsin Lejeune |
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CO is an intelligent business network that drives more sustainable business practices, starting with the fashion industry.
Sewport
| Founders | Boris Hodakel |
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SaaS platform – Connecting brands with manufacturers
ASOS
| Founders | Nick Robertson, Quentin Griffiths |
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Asos is an online platform engaged in the retail of fashion and beauty products for men and women.
Wool and the Gang
| Founders | Aurelie Popper, Jade Harwood |
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Wool and the Gang offers handcrafted knitwear and supplies ‘Knit Kits’ that allow users to knit their own customized designs.
Thread
| Founders | Ben Phillips, Kieran O’Neill |
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Thread operates as an online personal styling platform designed to help men find clothes.
SunGod
| Founders | Ali Watkiss, Zoe Charlotte Watkiss |
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Sungod is a company that takes pioneer approach to make better and more sustainable eye wear product.
Troubadour Goods
| Founders | Abel Samet |
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Troubadour Goods is a menswear fashion brand
The Idle Man
| Founders | Alex Outlaw, Oliver Tezcan |
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The online style destination for todays Man
Open for Vintage
| Founders | James Loftus, Sarah Kate Byrne |
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Open for Vintage is a luxury e-commerce fashion platform.
Lone Design Club
| Founders | Rebecca Morter |
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New Retail. Uniting the brands of tomorrow with the conscious consumer.
Little Black Door
| Founders | Lexi Willetts, Marina Pengilly |
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Little Black Door is an app that enables its users to upload, see, style and share their wardrobes with friends and their fashion community
SHAREIGHT
| Founders | Grant Slatter, Henry Whittaker |
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SHAREIGHT is a retail technology business powering multiple brands.
Quiet Rebellion
| Founders | Alex Miles, Inigo Weston |
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Quiet Rebellion is a menswear e-commerce brand that provides a playful brand that strives to bring color to soles around the world.
Sophia Webster
| Founders | Sophia Webster |
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Sophia Webster is a British accessories designer and Flamingo enthusiast.
Adla
| Founders | Holly Leslie |
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Adla is a clothing company that provides an artificially intelligent styling service.
MORI
| Founders | Akin Onal, Cam Miller |
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MORI (babymori.com) is an innovative and sustainable babywear brand. D2C
HURR
| Founders | Matthew Geleta, Victoria Prew |
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HURR is the smart way to rent your wardrobe, on-demand.
silkfred
| Founders | Emma Watkinson, Kate Jackson, Stephen Jackson |
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SilkFred is a luxury retail platform that helps independent brands and emerging designers get their products to market.
Motilo
| Founders | Sofia Barattieri Weinstein |
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Fashion Community for a Second Opinion
Clothes Doctor
| Founders | Lulu O’Connor |
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Clothes Doctor is an award-winning, 5-star rated, digital clothing maintenance service .
Endource
| Founders | Troy Collins |
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Endource.com is the pinnacle of curated fashion. We scour the most influential fashion sources to bring you the fashion that’s made the cut.
HAIRCVT
| Founders | Adam Symons, Tarik Fatihi |
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The best way to book your next haircut, in London and Paris.
Hill & Friends
| Founders | Emma Hill CBE |
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Hill and Friends is a brand that produces exceptionally crafted and luxuriously functional bags, each affirmed with a subversive wink.
A Suit That Fits
| Founders | Warren Bennett |
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A Suit That Fits Ltd. provides tailoring services in the United Kingdom. It designs and tailors shirts, morning coats, and dinner suits.
Mercaux
| Founders | Alexey Petrov, Olga Kotsur |
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Mercaux brings the benefits of digital into retail stores to drive sales uplift.
Chic by Choice
| Founders | Filipa Neto |
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Hire designer dresses curated by boutiques and department stores.
Jaeger
| Founders | Lewis Tomalin |
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Jaeger is British fashion brand, renowned for designing contemporary, innovative, and stylish womenswear, menswear, and accessories.
Boticca
| Founders | Avid Larizadeh, Kiyan Foroughi |
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Boticca was acquired by Wolf & Badger in July 2015. It was a fashion portal featuring items from selected independent brands worldwide.
Charli Cohen
| Founders | Charli Cohen |
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Charli Cohen creates technical-wear, born out of a need for evolved clothing and progression within the fashion industry.
Stylus Media
| Founders | Marc Worth |
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Stylus is a trends intelligence service. We deliver insights that businesses need to make transformative business decisions.
Shopupp
| Founders | Carl Mustad |
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Shopupp is the new intelligent shopping app for women.
Grabble
| Founders | Daniel Murray, Joel Freeman |
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Grabble is an application that enables its users to discover daily hand-picked fashion.
UNMADE
| Founders | Ben Alun-Jones, Hal Watts, Kirsty Emery |
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Unmade provides customizable design through industrial manufacturing.
Haute Elan
| Founders | Romanna Bint-Abubaker |
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The Global Destination for Modest Fashion
The Drop
| Founders | Jonathan Kruger, Stephen Stroud |
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Building the future of personalised fashion
Vinaya
| Founders | Dan Möller, Fabio Pania, Kate Unsworth |
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Vinaya provides lifestyle-enhancing technology products.
Enclothed
| Founders | Dana Zingher, Levi Young |
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An online personal shopping service for men
BECOCO
| Founders | Katharina Vandamme-Eybesfeld |
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London based fashion-tech startup.
TheFashion
| Founders | Ida Adler Olsen, Kasper Vardrup, Troels Knak-Nielsen |
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Thefashion.com is another startup operating in the fashion discovery and shopping space
Beulah London
| Founders | Lavinia Brennan, Natasha Finch |
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Founded in 2010, ‘Beulah London’ is a luxury fashion label with a conscience.
