About Sylvia Young

Sylvia Young started Beau Monde in 1987 after a fruitless Saturday shopping trip. On Sunday she woke up knowing she should open a shop.

After initially selling clothes by young designers, Sylvia incorporated her own designs with such success that 99% of the items in the shop are now hers.

Self-taught by a lifetime spent around fashion wearing it, styling it, and selling it, it was natural for Sylvia to move into designing and making fashion.

"My designs are for women like me, business women, working mothers, busy people with no time to shop around. A typical customer will fly in on the way to a meeting, needing to pick up the garment on the way home, all the time juggling children, nannies and heavy social diaries. More and more these days women are breadwinners and carers, with demanding schedules and no time for themselves. They can stop here for a moment and be pampered.

After 25 years in Soho Beau Monde has moved to the other side of Oxford Street. Surrounded by the garment district Beau Monde has found a home to allow for the natural growth it maintains. “Appointment only but down to earth, we still carry stock but largely make to measure. We are now dressing the next generation, children of customers I’ve been selling to for years”.