Chelsea Girl fashion brand to return

After more than two decades on the shelf, fashion retailer River Island is to bring back the once popular Chelsea Girl brand.

Chelsea Girl will return this week for the first time in more than two decades. The fashion chain was synonymous with the 1980s

A "pop-up" Chelsea Girl shop will open in Selfridges on Thursday, while a new Chelsea Girl range will launch in stores across the UK next Monday.
Ben Lewis, chief executive of the privately owned retailer, used the comeback to call on the Government to make UK manufacturing more competitive.
Mr Lewis also called for the abolition of upward-only rent reviews in the property sector. He said that the current system is "terrible" for retailers who are trying to spearhead a growth-led recovery.
He has urged the Government to increase its support of UK-based production. In his first newspaper interview, he said: "We are a strong supporter of UK manufacturing and always have been. We would like to do more UK manufacturing, it is just a question of how competitive it is. Anything the Government can do to aid manufacturing and make it more competitive will be advantageous to us."