T here’s not much good news around in fashion at the moment, which makes the figures released on Friday by Kurt Geiger, that shoes-and-bags stalwart of the British high street founded way back in 1963, yet more remarkable. Sure, those among us with magpie tendencies may long have held the brand close to our heart, yet even we probably hadn’t clocked that the company — launched on Bond Street in London in 1963 by Geiger, an Austrian Jew and refugee from Nazi Germany — had become an international phenomenon, one of our biggest recent success stories. It’s mainly down to America, where in the past seven years sales have grown an incredible hundredfold, from £2.
5 million to £250 million, to represent 68 per cent of the.
