Luxury Fashion Brands Directory

The Luxury Fashion Brand Directory is a great place to find stylish designer fashion. We enjoy hand picking designers and upscale boutiques to bring to your attention. From this directory you will find designer handbags, designer clothing, and some of the most stylish designer accessories and footwear on the planet. If you love Gucci, Diesel, Prada, Armani, DKNY, Dolce & Gabbana, etc., this fashion guide is the place for you - check out the designer shoes, or spice up your life with luxurious lingerie. It sits inside the wider Fashion Brands section, beside the Fashion Brands Directory, the Luxury Fashion glossary entry, Popular Fashion Brands, High End Fashion and Defining Luxury.

This directory is organized the way a luxury shopper actually shops: by category first, through named upscale retailers, and by brand second. Its six shopping categories are Women's, Handbags, Jewelry, Shoes, Men's and Children's. The women's lists run through Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdales, Harrods, Lord & Taylor and Neiman Marcus. Handbags repeat that retailer pattern and add Coach. Jewelry adds the specialist houses - Cartier, Harry Winston and Tiffany & Co. - to the department-store jewelry departments. Shoes cover women's and men's ranges at Bloomingdales, Coach footwear, and Neiman Marcus. The men's and children's categories follow the same five-retailer pattern. Every one of those retailer and brand destinations is listed, deduplicated, in the References & Further Reading block on this page.

Shop by Brand

The directory's by-brand list is its heart, exactly as filed: Chanel, Chloe, Diesel, Dolce & Gabbana, Emilio Pucci, Giorgio Armani, Gucci, Guess, Prada, Louis Vuitton, Versace, Calvin Klein, Dior, Hermes, Yves Saint Laurent, Hugo Boss, Fendi, Valentino, Escada, Cartier, Salvatore Ferragamo, Carolina Herrera, Krizia, Burberry and Bottega Veneta. Read as a group, the list shows what this directory means by luxury: Paris and Milan houses with monograms and leather goods, American designer names, a denim-born label in Diesel and a jeans-born one in Guess, jewelers in Cartier, and accessories houses whose handbags and shoes carry the brand as surely as their clothing does. The official sites for these labels are in the References block below.

The directory also closes with a short roll of fabulous fashion brand retailers - Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdales, Harrods, Harry Winston, Lord & Taylor, Neiman Marcus, Tiffany & Co. and Coach. That list matters because it states the directory's method: luxury fashion is researched here through the stores that stake their reputations on stocking it, as much as through the labels themselves. A shopper can begin with a brand and find its retailers, or begin with a retailer category - women's, handbags, jewelry, shoes, men's or children's - and find the brands it carries. Both directions work here.

Labels That Have Already Reached Stardom

The directory states its philosophy plainly, and it is worth quoting in substance because it explains every inclusion on this page. New designer fashion labels are emerging on the scene each and every day; designers and designer brands are spotlighted at fashion week events, fundraisers and trunk shows, and season after season the new rising star is presented for review - receiving, like gladiators, a thumbs up or thumbs down from the important fashion media companies and luxury retailers around the globe. Unfortunately, many of the emerging stars fall as fast as they had first risen. On this directory, the primary goal is to highlight the labels that have already reached stardom.

The directory is equally clear about what that choice is not. It fully understands that the fashion brands that have not reached an iconic level still have a great deal to offer - enthusiasm, spectacular collections, fresh trends. However, at this time, the directory is not interested in "potential"; it is more concerned with providing viewers with easy access to excellence. That is a defensible editorial line for a luxury guide, and this page keeps it rather than softening it: emerging labels belong to the wider Fashion Brands section and the emerging-designers coverage, while this page stays the directory of established luxury names and the retailers that carry them.

This style savvy guide is perfect for the luxury fashion shopper: you will find the best in designer fashion, though you may not find the best prices on the internet. In this guide's view, true fashion has little to do with price - if you have to ask how much, you may not be ready for this fashion guide. Keep your eye on luxury fashion branding, it advises: who will be the next big luxury brand? That question is left open on purpose. The directory will add the answer when a label has earned it - reached stardom, in its own words - not before.

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