Urban Outfitters to open store on Champs-Elysées in Paris
Nicola Mira
Paris’s avenue des Champs-Elysées is increasingly in demand, with several store relocations and inaugurations taking place one year ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games. JD SportsCalvin KleinUrban OutfittersKnight Frank
Urban Outfitters will set up shop midway through the avenue, opposite Fouquet’s restaurant, at a 680-square-metre premises close to the SandroNikeSwatchZara
Urban Outfitters is accustomed to designing unusual, striking retail interiors, and no doubt it will aim to do the same with this new location. The store will commercialise the label’s ready-to-wear collections for women and men, accessories, lingerie, home decoration objects and gadgets.
Urban Outfitters already operates a store at 146 rue de Rivoli in the French capital,Cap 3000URBNAnthropologieFree People
Urban Outfitters was founded in Philadelphia in 1970 and has more than 200 stores worldwide. It went through a troubled patch in Q2 2023 (between May and July), when its direct sales fell by 14.1%. The trend for the URBN group as a whole (comprising Urban Outfitters, Free People, Anthropologie, Nuuly and other labels) was instead positive, with revenue growing by 7.5% in the same period, to $1.27 billion.
