Headington Cos. has purchased its second luxury retailer, Tenoversix, a fashion and design store founded in Los Angeles, and said late Monday that it plans to open more stores.

With it, Dallas-based developer Headington has gained a president and chief creative officer for its expanding retail business that started with its 2014 purchase of Dallas' Forty Five Ten.

Kristen Cole, who co-founded Tenoversix in 2008, is now over both Headington fashion luxury brands. Tenoversix was among the first new stores to open on Main Street in Dallas with Headington's $150 million initial development downtown in 2014 anchored by the Joule Hotel.

The top job has been vacant since Brian Bolke left Forty Five Ten, which he co-founded in Dallas in 2000.

Kristen Cole is president and chief creative officer of Headington Cos. luxury retail brands, Forty Five Ten and Tenoversix, which the company purchased in February 2018. (Headington Cos.)

Cole's husband, Joe Cole, has been a creative consultant-at-large for Headington Cos. The Coles moved to Austin a couple of years ago and have been working on a new Tenoversix store that will open this month in Miami's Little River neighborhood. They closed their original Los Angeles store last year.

Their Melrose Avenue store was among the first to combine emerging fashion designers apparel with design, art and books. Cole comes to her new post at Headington from a stint as creative director for Austin-based luxury retailer ByGeorge.

Headington Cos. president Michael Tregoning said the acquisition of Tenoversix is a natural step and the Coles' "experience as entrepreneurs will allow us to optimize the rapid growth of our retail portfolio over the next 18 months."

That growth includes Forty Five Ten's New York City debut with a 16,000-square-foot store scheduled to open in March 2019 in a new vertical mall in Hudson Yards. Forty Five Ten will be in the same development with Dallas-based Neiman Marcus. Since Headington purchased Forty Five Ten, that brand has opened stores in Houston and Napa Valley.

The brands have some deep pockets behind them.

Privately held Headington Cos. wealth was created in the oil and gas business, where founder Tim Headington became a billionaire with a worth of $1.64 billion, according to Forbes. But now the company's business interests include film production, office development, hospitality, restaurant and retail. Late last year, it opened the Commissary food retailer on Main in downtown Dallas in what had been an empty building.

And it sounds as though they'll be spending more money to create a bigger luxury retail company.

Headington's news release said Cole "will build an executive team of content, buying, operational and creative talents in an effort to successfully propel the brands through the next stage of growth."

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