Monsoon was founded in 1973 by Peter Simon following a period of selling shaggy woollen coats on the Portobello Road and hand block printed clothing from Rajasthan to anyone who would buy them. The original focus was always clothes with an ethnic origin from faraway places, including unusual dresses from Afghanistan and other countries en route.
1973 saw the opening of the first Monsoon shop in Beauchamp Place in London, In 1984 Accesrize evolved as an exciting and strongly differenciated High Street concept for fashion accessories.
In May 1999 Monsoon home was launched and within in the store was a range which incorporated the Monsoon look and philosophy, creating an innovative and individual home accesories range.
Since it's first store opening back in 1973 Monsoon has gone from strength to strength and in more recent years they company has added Monsoon baby, Monsoon boy and Monsoon Men to it's ever growing brand name.
Monsoon has expanded rapidly from its London base and now has 400 stores in the United Kingdom and over 600 throughout the world.
(Information gathered from www.monsoon.co.uk)
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