Forty Clothing shuts its Glasgow flagship after nearly 10 years

Forty is an independent streetwear brand from Glasgow, founded in 2013 by Gordon Harry Miller, who supplied the fashion eye, and Peter Love, who supplied the design. The logo — a monster doodle — was drawn by Miller's three-year-old son Bryce. The brand began selling online from a basement before opening its flagship at 11 Royal Exchange Square in Glasgow city centre, and ran pop-ups including one on the Spanish island of Ibiza. Love Island winner Paige Turley modelled for the label from 2017.

In March 2026, after nearly ten years at the flagship, Forty announced it would close 11 Royal Exchange Square. The brand held a farewell party on Saturday 28 March and shut the doors on Sunday evening. In a statement it blamed 'ongoing challenges in the retail sector, and general market conditions across Scotland and the UK for all businesses,' calling the closure 'the incredibly tough decision we had to make to protect the future of FORTY.'

The closure did not end the brand. Forty said its website and its store at Glasgow Fort would continue to trade as normal, framing the flagship shutdown as a restructuring to save the label rather than a wind-down. For the loyal community that had gathered at Royal Exchange Square for a decade, though, the loss of the flagship marked the end of an era for one of Glasgow's homegrown streetwear names.