Fashion Company Names

This page is the front door of the Apparel Search Fashion Company Names directory: apparel industry companies listed by business name, each with its own profile elsewhere in this section. The page stated the section's rule plainly, and the rule is kept here because it explains everything about the list below. Is your company a leader in the clothing industry? If yes, let us know - we will consider adding the listing. This section is NOT for all companies: this fashion company profile section is only for a few of the leaders in the apparel industry. The directory does not include all of the apparel companies in the world, but you will find a nice selection of important fashion businesses, and new corporate listings are added periodically.

That selectivity is worth understanding before the list is used. The guide certainly does not contain every single fashion company in the world - thus far, the page says, only a small portion of the apparel companies that have been of interest have been listed, with more to be added in the future. If you know a clothing company that you think should be included, you are welcome to make suggestions; but the section lists only the fashion companies its editors wish to highlight at the time, and listings may be added or deleted as they see fit. When you see a company profile that appears out-dated, let us know - that invitation, too, is part of the page page and part of how a hand-kept directory stays honest.

How the Directory Is Organised

The routes at the top of the grids below divide the directory three ways and then by specialty. The full alphabetical list presents every profile on one page; the three range listings split it into Fashion Companies A to I, J to R, and S to Z; the numbers listing gathers the companies whose names begin with a numeral, such as 7 For All Mankind and 20X; and the Footwear Companies route gathers the shoe specialists - adidas, Converse, Nike, Skechers, Timberland and their peers - into one trade view. The letter bar above the grids does the same job letter by letter, leading to the 26 letter hubs of which the I hub, rebuilt in this same batch, is one. The A-to-Z grid that follows those routes is the directory's own selection in the page order: retailers, brands, manufacturers, trade bodies, publications and technology companies, from Abercrombie & Fitch, Ace Apparel and adidas through Wrangler, WRAP and the WSA Show.

Read the list as a map of the industry the directory grew up with. Department stores and chains - Macy's, Kohl's, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Saks peers and Lord & Taylor - stand beside brand houses such as Ralph Lauren, Burberry, Gucci and LVMH; manufacturers and sourcing names such as Li & Fung and Luen Thai beside fiber and technology filings such as INVISTA's brands in the I section; and the trade's institutions - the AAFA, the CFDA, APLF and the fashion institutes FIDM and FIT - beside the retailers entirely. Two companies in the A-to-Z grid are reached through other letters' folders in the page's own filing: Athleta, Banana Republic and Old Navy through the Gap folder, Dickies through Williamson-Dickie in W, and Payless ShoeSource and Stride Rite through Collective Brands in C. Those routes are kept exactly as recorded, because in a hand-built directory the route is part of the record.

Fashion Companies No Longer in Business

The final grid below is the directory's memorial wall, and its heading is the page's own: Fashion Companies No Longer in Business. The companies listed there are no longer in business; their profiles are kept here as fashion industry history. The page attached a closing year to each name, and those years are part of the record, so they are kept here in full: Alstyle Apparel (closed 2016), Ann Inc. (2015), Charming Shoppes Inc. (2012), Collective Brands Incorporated (2012), Collective Licensing International (2019), Delta Apparel Incorporated (2025), Destination Maternity (2019), Esprit (2025), Fifth & Pacific (2014), Hampshire Group Limited (2016), Hartmarx (2009), Jimmy Jazz (2021), Jones Apparel Group (2014), Limited Brands (2013), Liz Claiborne Inc. (2014), Loehmann's (2018), Lucy Activewear (2018), Piperlime (2015), Polyvore (2018), P.S. from Aeropostale (2016), Saks Incorporated (2013), Sears Holdings Corporation (2018), Spiegel (2019), Stride Rite Corporation (2012), Style.com (2017), TheFind (2015), Warnaco (2013), Wet Seal (2017) and Williamson-Dickies Manufacturing Co. (2017).

Keeping closed companies - rather than deleting them - is a deliberate Apparel Search policy, and this page is where the policy is most visible. A researcher tracing what happened to a mall brand, a licensing group or a catalogue house needs the profile to still exist, dated and honest, long after the stores close; several of these names, among them Hampshire Group, Hartmarx, Jimmy Jazz and Jones Apparel Group, also keep fuller letter-section profiles elsewhere in this directory, written to the same rule. If you are bored learning about fashion companies, the page allowed, you may wish to take a break and do some shopping - buying clothing is always a nice distraction. And if you wish to continue your education about the fashion industry instead, the fashion news route in the grids below leads to coverage of the very companies this directory profiles.