uxury brand Mark Cross has a long and winding American-French history. Founded in Boston in 1845 by Henry W. Cross and named after his only son, the company began its life as a luxury leather-goods outfitter for the equestrian set. It was acquired in the late 1800s by an employee, Patrick Murphy, who moved the brand’s headquarters from Boston to New York City. Murphy’s son, Gerald, and his wife Sara—who together fully took over the company in 1934—relocated themselves and the brand itself to Paris in the 1920s, where they were quickly established as representatives of an effortless, indelibly American spirit. It is Gerald and Sara who serve as the sources of inspiration
