, London, 2022 Hackett was founded in 1983 by
Jeremy Hackett and Ashley Lloyd-Jennings from a stall on London's
Portobello Road. The first shop, on the "wrong end" of
King's Road, in London's
Chelsea district, was selling only
used clothes. The company gradually expanded over several years, increasing the number of branches and moving from acquiring and selling second-hand clothing to designing and selling its own items. International expansion began with the 1989 opening of a Spanish branch in
Madrid. In 1994, Hackett opened a shop on the Rive Gauche in
Paris before adding children’s clothes to its collection a year later. In February 2015, Hackett (part of the
Pepe Jeans Group) was bought by Lebanese firm
M1 Group and by
LVMH subsidiary L Capital Asia. Hackett and Pepe Jeans were previously owned by Torreal Funds (31 percent), Artá Capital (16.4 percent), L Capital Europe (11.5 percent) and its managers. Hackett became the official clothing supplier to the
Williams Martini Racing team, from the 2015 season onwards. The company's
flagship store at 14
Savile Row in London was previously a
Hardy Amies shop from 1946 until March 2019; the space was taken over by Hackett in June 2019. ==References==