The first Accessorize store opened in London’s Covent Garden Piazza in 1984 and the second in Carnaby Street in 1986. 1992 saw the first Accessorize store outside London with a store opening in Manchester. In the same year the first airport store was opened at Gatwick South terminal. Building on the company’s phenomenal success, a store opening programme began, averaging 16 new stores each year.

Today there are more than 240 Accessorize stores in the UK and a blossoming international operation of over 600 stores.