Which high street fashion brands closed stores in 2025?
A raft of major UK retail brands shut down stores across the UK this year, with other high street mainstays closing their doors for good.
It came amid a backdrop of pressure on consumer finances, rising inflation for most of the year and increased costs for businesses.
As a result, numerous businesses launched restructuring efforts or entered administration.
Here are some of the major fashion brands with closed sites across this year...
Claire’s
The UK arm of fashion accessories business Claire’s tumbled into administration this year after its US owner entered bankruptcy.
Modella Capital once again appeared in the picture, striking a deal to save 156 stores.
However, 145 shops - employing around 1,000 workers - were not part of the deal and closed as a result.
Quiz Clothing
Fashion chain Quiz shut 23 of its stores after entering administration in February, in a move which hit around 200 workers.
It closed the shops despite being bought in a pre-pack administration deal by a subsidiary of the founding Ramzan family.
Quiz had started the year searching for emergency funding but fell into insolvency after failing to secure a deal.
Select Fashion
Select Fashion was another chain to cease trading in 2025, after the womenswear business came under pressure from growing losses.
The business closed all its roughly 80 stores earlier this year and entered liquidation after failing to find a buyer.
New Look
Elsewhere in retail, high street fashion chain New Look shut 15 of its stores in the UK over the year.
The group also revealed that it would exit the Republic of Ireland, shutting all its 26 shops in the country, hitting 347 workers, in the face of squeezed consumer spending.
Monki
At the start of the year, European fashion giant H&M announced plans to close its seven stores under its Monki brand.
It said a “limited number” of these would be transformed into its sister brand Weekday but still closed a number of shops permanently.
River Island
Retail chain River Island shut 33 shops as part of a restructuring to help support its future.
The fashion group pushed through a formal restructuring plan amid fears that the company could collapse into administration without action.
It also secured rent reductions on 71 other stores as part of the plan.
Poundland
Poundland was also among chains to have suffered over the year from pressure on shoppers despite its value proposition.
The group was sold for £1 as a result and launched a major restructuring plan.
This involved the initial closure of 57 stores in a move which put more than 1,000 jobs at risk.
The company, which was bought by investment firm Gordon Brothers, has since announced further tranches of closures and is set to have shut more than 100 sites by the start of 2026, as part of efforts to trim its estate from around 800 sites to between 650 and 700 shops.
