POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby makes, 
constitutes and appoints each of Matthew C. Moellering, Melissa Mick, 
Elliott R. Tobias, Dave Anders, William R. Burke and Lacey J. Bundy, 
signing singly, as the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact, 
with full power and authority as hereinafter described on behalf of 
and in the name, place and stead of the undersigned to:
 
(1) prepare, execute, acknowledge, deliver and file Forms 3, 4 and 5 
(including any amendments thereto) with respect to the securities of
Express, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), with the 
United States Securities and Exchange Commission, any national 
securities exchanges and the Company, as considered necessary or 
advisable under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 
and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended from 
time to time (the "Exchange Act");
 
(2) seek or obtain, as the 
undersigned's representative and on the 
undersigned's behalf, information on transactions in the Company's 
securities from any third party, including brokers, employee benefit
plan administrators and trustees, and the undersigned hereby authorizes
any such person to release any such information to the undersigned and 
approves and ratifies any such release of information; and
(3) perform any and all other acts which in the discretion of such 
attorneys-in-fact are necessary or desirable for and on behalf of 
the undersigned in connection with the foregoing.
 
The undersigned acknowledges that:
 
(1) this Power of Attorney authorizes, but does not require, each
such attorney-in-fact to act in their discretion on information 
provided to such attorney-in-fact without independent verification 
of such information;
 
(2) any documents prepared and/or executed by any of the 
attorneys-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power
of Attorney 
will be in such form and will contain such information and 
disclosure as such attorney-in-fact, in his discretion, deems 
necessary or desirable;
 
(3) neither the Company nor any of the attorneys-in-fact 
assumes (i) any liability for the undersigned's responsibility to comply 
with the requirement of the Exchange Act, (ii) any liability of the 
undersigned for any failure to comply with such requirements, 
or (iii) any obligation or liability of the undersigned for profit
disgorgement under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act; and
(4) this Power of Attorney does not relieve the undersigned from 
responsibility for compliance with the undersigned's obligations under
the Exchange Act, including without limitation the reporting requirements
under Section 16 of the Exchange Act.
 
The undersigned hereby gives and grants each of the foregoing 
attorneys-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform all and 
every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary
 or appropriate to be 
done in and about the foregoing matters as fully to all intents and purposes
 as the undersigned might or could do if present, with full power of 
substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying all that such attorney-in-fact,
or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, of, for and on behalf 
of the undersigned, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of 
this Power of Attorney.
 
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until revoked 
by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to each of such 
attorneys-in-fact.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 19th day of April 2010.
 

/s/  Jeanne L. St. Pierre                         
Name:  Jeanne L. St. Pierre