Laure Hriard Dubreuil opened The Webster's flagship location in 2009 at 1220 Collins Avenue in South Beach, Miami. Originally the Webster Hotel, the 20,000 square-foot Art Deco building was built in 1939 by architect Henry Hohauser. Hriard Dubreuil, who grew up in Paris and worked as a top merchandiser for Balenciaga and Yves Saint Laurent before founding The Webster, kept the name but reimagined the three-story interior as a women's and men's multi-brand luxury retailer designed with vibrant intimacy to resemble a residential space. The Webster has expanded to thirteen stores with locations in South Beach, Austin, Houston, Bal Harbour, Costa Mesa, SoHo, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Montecito, Toronto, Palm Springs, New Jersey, and Atlanta.