Anthropologie history

Prices at Urban Outfitters stores during 1993 ranged from $.75 for greeting cards to $450 for a World War I-style leather bomber jacket.

By 1994, shipments of Urban Wholesale outside the United States, particularly to Japan, was six percent of total sales.

According to a 1995 Forbes story, Hayne spent $4 million a year on salaries and expenses for over 75 young fashion buyers who checked out neighborhoods in the United States, London, and Paris to report on hot fashion trends.

In 1998, the brand launched a mail-order catalog.

Opening in Paramus, New Jersey in 2002, the first Free People store was a small boutique that was a mix of natural and rugged.

Our next eatery, Terrain Cafe, was an unexpected success that grew from a unique retail concept opened by URBN in 2008. terrain began with its flagship location in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania opened on the site of the historic J. Franklin Styer’s Nursery.

In 2009, Anthropologie opened its first international store in London, England.

Starting out online only, BHLDN opened its first free-standing location in Houston, Texas, in August 2011.

Captivated by the bustling Philadelphia food scene, URBN expanded their food and beverage presence with the acquisition of The Vetri Family Restaurant Group in 2015, which included an array of Italian restaurant concepts.

In 2018, following an exposé of the mohair industry in South Africa, Anthropologie joined other fashion retailers in banning the sale of products that contained the goat-derived fur.

In October 2019, Urban Outfitters revealed Anthropologie Home Outlet in Pittsburgh, which focuses only on home furnishings.

However, in 2020, Anthropologie became a target of protests when it ignored calls from PETA to ban the sale of items that are made with alpaca hair.

In April 2021, Hillary Super stepped down as CEO of Anthropologie and Tricia D. Smith, a 26-year veteran of Nordstrom, took over as Anthropologie’s global CEO.