We make fashion for real people with real lives, who want to look real good. Because life’s a celebration – let’s dress for it.

River Island was founded in the 1940s as a market stall that sold fabric, and grew during the Swinging London era into a business called Chelsea Girl that specialized in minidresses. Since 1988 it’s been known as River Island, a retailer of accessible and high-quality men’s and women’s clothes with over 250 stores across the country.