Mint Velvet

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Mint Velvet
Industry Fashion
Founded2009
Key people
Products Clothing, Accessories
Website Mint Velvet

Mint Velvet is a British womenswear clothing brand with boutiques across the UK and Ireland, as well as concessions in John Lewis, House of Fraser and Fenwick.

Relaxed Glamour is our fail-safe style formula: it underpins everything we do and has been with us since the very beginning. [2]

History

Mint Velvet was founded in 2009 [3] [4] by Liz Houghton, Jane Rawlings, Lisa Agar-Rea and Stuart Grant [1] after identifying their own needs and desires "to wear the trends in a relaxed way" [5] and look effortlessly stylish, even on the busiest of days. [6]

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