Teen who went from selling £50 shoes to £50k of clothes opens own designer store

An 18-year-old has opened his own designer clothes shop after running his own luxury personal shopping business from home. Bradley MacPherson who started selling clothes at 14-years-old during the pandemic has now branched out of his living room into Clyde Shopping Centre, Clydebank.

The entrepreneurial teen started out when he bought a pair of dirty Yeezy trainers from a friend for £50, cleaned them up and sold them for £90. After a couple of years networking Bradley was able to establish himself as a trusted seller of top quality high-end clothing and footwear.

Welding apprentice Bradley, from Old Kilpatrick, welcomed customers to his first-ever Laprise UK store last month. And he already has some big name clients including footballers, actors and DJs.

Bradely said: “After I sold the Yeezy’s I kept buying more and more items. A lot of the pieces I initially bought and sold were from Depop.

“I put a lot of hours into learning how to authenticate things and I bought good items at low prices and sold it on social media. I sold loads locally and built a network from there.

“I eventually moved from selling used clothes to brand new stuff and built a network ranging from Glasgow to London of people who could help source me the items. You start to know a boy who can do this and a girl who can sell that.

“I also have lots of clientele in Glasgow who know they can trust me. All different people buy from me – regular people and footballers, actors, and DJs.”

Most recently, Bradley has sold items to DJ BLK and DJ Azyr. The former Clydebank High pupil said launching his own venture was a huge step for his business, which sells high-end trainers, clothes and bags and stocks local brands too.

“I got to the point where I thought why not open up my own shop and see how it goes,” he said. “It all happened so quickly. I had always passed through the shopping centre so I had an idea of how busy it was.

“In store we have local brands on display so we’re not just incorporating the bigger ones but we’re also looking out for the local ones too because at the end of the day, I’m a local business.

“Our sourcing is quite broad and you can ask me pretty much for anything and I will see what I can do. We mostly offer footwear like Nike dunks, Jordans all that kind of stuff but we also do clothing.”

He has also just launched on Depop as @laprise_UK.

“Laprise UK sells a lot of things that you couldn’t just walk into a retail store and buy. The stuff we sell is hard to come by whereas we’ve already sourced it so customers can just come into our shop and pick the items up.

“It makes it easier for people in Clydebank to walk into their local shopping centre knowing an item they want is sold out online but they can come in and speak to our staff and ask for it to be sourced and we will try our best.”

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