Vintage boutique is first shop for Â£80m Fruit Market

AN INDEPENDENT fashion brand is the first retailer to move into a new shopping and leisure destination

By The Newsroom

Published 22nd Feb 2017, 16:12 BST

Updated 1st Mar 2017, 08:38 BST

Poorboy Boutiques Angela Seaton, Caroline Pendleton and Ricardo Seaton, with Wykelands Tom Watson (blue shirt).

Poorboy Boutique is to open up a 1,000 sq ft store in Humber Street in the heart of Hull’s Fruit Market area next month.

The business collects pre-loved and unwanted garments from all over the world to transform into modern pieces. It has customers from all over the world including Russia, Japan and the United States.

The £80m regeneration of the Fruit Market as the city’s first ‘urban village’ includes new and refurbished commercial, retail and leisure space. The commercial units sit alongside 101 new homes around private courtyards, due to start construction by the summer.