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Morgan (clothing)

French clothing brand

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ6911563
Source-derived summary

Morgan de toi is a clothing brand, owned by the French company Morgan SA. The company was established in 1947 to sell lingerie, but has since diversified.

At present it has over 650 retail outlets worldwide. Production is vertically integrated and takes place mainly in France. The brand is targeted at women between the ages of 18 and 35. The CEO is Yann Jaslet and the headquarters are in Paris.

Morgan operates worldwide in the following arenas:

retail stores,

licensed stores,

wholesale,

mail order,

3rd party internet

The UK operation had moved to 7 Back Hill, London, and appointed Fergus Patterson as their managing director. The business operated stand alone retail sites as well as numerous concessions in leading department stores such as Debenhams and House of Fraser. In 2006, the company went into administration, while the French business went insolvent by December 2008.

In Friends' episode The One With Ross's Thing, Phoebe wears a Morgan t-shirt.

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The public source identifies “Morgan (clothing)” as french clothing brand. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Morgan, clothing and French.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 2006, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1947. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Morgan, clothing and French providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6911563. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1947, 2006 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from Morgan (clothing)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.