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| Private Company | |
| Industry | Fashion |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Headquarters | London, UK |
Key people | Hannah Weiland (Founder & Creative Director) |
| Products | Clothes, shoes, accessories |
| Website | shrimps |
Shrimps is a fashion label founded by London-based designer, Hannah Weiland, launched in 2013. [1] [2] . Originally launched with one faux fur coat and then centred around faux fur outerwear and accessories, Shrimps is now a full RTW label offering a variety of pieces as well as the faux fur outerwear that made its name. Shrimps became famous for its signature faux fur coats [3] , garnering support from animal rights activists such as PETA [4] [5] , and drawing new attention to faux fur as a fabric in fashion [6] [7] .
Hannah Weiland is an English fashion designer. Weiland's brand, Shrimps was a finalist for the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund 2017. She started Shrimps in 2013 after attending The London College of Fashion.
Ready-to-wear or prêt-à-porter is the term for factory-made clothing, sold in finished condition in standardized sizes, as distinct from made to measure or bespoke clothing tailored to a particular person's frame. Off-the-peg is sometimes used for items other than clothing such as handbags.
Fake fur, also called faux fur, is known as pile fabric, which is engineered to have the appearance and warmth of animal fur.
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Early supporters of the brand include Laura Bailey, Natalie Massenet, Adwoa Aboah, Alexa Chung, amongst others.
Laura Bailey is an English model and writer. Born in London, England, she has modelled campaigns for Guess jeans, L'Oreal, Jaguar, Jaeger, Marks and Spencer, Bella Freud, Radley and Temperley London. Bailey also works as a writer and has written for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Glamour, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times. She is a Cultural Ambassador for the British Fashion Council and an Ambassador for Oxfam. In September 2011, Bailey was announced as a contributing editor to British Vogue. She also writes a blog for Vogue.co.uk.
Dame Natalie Sara Massenet, is a fashion entrepreneur and former journalist, who founded the designer fashion portal Net-a-Porter. From 2013 to 2017, she was the chairman of the British Fashion Council. In 2017 alongside Nick Brown, she co-founded Imaginary Ventures and became non executive co-chairman at Farfetch.
Adwoa Caitlin Maria Aboah is a British fashion model. In December 2017 she appeared on the cover of British Vogue. She has also been on the cover of American Vogue, Vogue Italia, Vogue Poland, and i-D. In 2017, the fashion industry voted her as Model of the Year for models.com.
Shrimps presents new collections seasonally on schedule at London Fashion Week [8] . Stockists for the brand include: Dover Street Market, Selfridges, Matchesfashion.com, Nordstrom, Bon Marché, BOONTHESHOP and MyTheresa.
Dover Street Market is a multi-brand retailer originally located on Dover Street, in Mayfair, London. It has stores in New York City, Tokyo, Singapore, Beijing and Los Angeles.
Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of high-end department stores in the United Kingdom that is operated by Selfridges Retail Limited, part of the Selfridges Group of department stores. It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge in 1908. The flagship store on London's Oxford Street is the second largest shop in the UK and opened 15 March 1909. Other Selfridges stores opened in the Trafford Centre (1998) and Exchange Square (2002) in Manchester, and in the Bullring in Birmingham (2003).
MatchesFashion.com is a London-based global luxury retailer for men and women, offering the work of more than 400 luxury brands like Gucci, Prada, Stella McCartney, Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Burberry, and Lanvin. The business operates online and via four London stores, and runs No.23, a private-shopping townhouse.
