Space NK is a British luxury beauty retailer founded in 1993 by Nicky Kinnaird in London. The company established itself as a curated destination for prestige and niche beauty brands, bringing independent and emerging luxury beauty labels to a broader audience through its edit of carefully selected skincare, makeup, fragrance, haircare, and body care products. Space NK is currently owned by Manzanita Capital, a consumer-focused investment firm.

The retailer's product assortment spans luxury and niche beauty brands across all major beauty categories. Space NK is known for being an early stockist of brands that have since achieved significant commercial success, including Diptyque, By Terry, Oribe, Drunk Elephant, and Charlotte Tilbury, among many others. The buying strategy emphasizes discovering brands with distinctive formulations, innovative ingredients, or unique brand stories. Space NK also produces its own branded products and accessories. The company operates an N.dulge loyalty program that rewards customer spending.

Space NK operates a network of standalone stores primarily across the United Kingdom, with additional locations in the United States and Ireland, alongside a comprehensive e-commerce platform serving multiple international markets. In the U.S., Space NK also maintains a presence through shop-in-shop locations within Nordstrom department stores. The retailer occupies a distinct position in the beauty market as a curated multi-brand destination focused exclusively on prestige and luxury beauty, differentiating itself from mass-market beauty retailers and single-brand boutiques.

Luxury Cosmetics

Space NK is a curated luxury beauty retailer carrying a selection of prestige and niche cosmetics brands. The store stocks makeup from brands including Charlotte Tilbury, Pat McGrath Labs, NARS, and By Terry, among others. Space NK's buying approach focuses on discovering brands with distinctive formulations and positions the retailer as an edited destination for luxury color cosmetics across its UK and US stores and e-commerce platform.

Luxury Haircare

Space NK stocks luxury and niche haircare brands including Oribe, along with other premium haircare lines selected for their formulation quality and brand distinction. The retailer offers shampoos, conditioners, treatments, styling products, and tools from its curated edit of prestige haircare across its stores and e-commerce platform.

Luxury Perfumes

Space NK carries a selection of niche and luxury fragrance houses, offering perfumes, candles, and home scenting products from brands that align with the retailer's focus on distinctive, independent beauty labels. The fragrance assortment spans personal fragrance and home scenting categories.

Luxury Skincare

Space NK retails a curated assortment of prestige and niche skincare brands, including lines focused on advanced formulations, natural ingredients, and clinical-grade actives. The retailer was an early stockist of several skincare brands that later achieved wide commercial success and maintains its reputation as a destination for discovering luxury skincare across its store network and e-commerce platform.