Avirex Men's Fashion Brand

Avirex is an American company that designs, manufactures and markets clothing lines. It was founded by Jeff Clyman in 1975 as a brand for military apparel. Contrary to popular belief, Avirex was not a U.S. military supplier during World War II - a correction worth stating plainly at the front of this profile. In 1987 the company worked on re-issuing of A-2 jacket for the United States Air Force - the genuine service connection, a re-issue of the classic flight jacket, twelve years after the founding.

In 2006, Jeff Clyman sold the Avirex brand and trademark as well as the Avirex sportswear and Hip-hop fashion lines in Europe, Japan, and the United States. The new owner of the Avirex brand in the United States is Eckō Unltd. Those are the whole facts - a 1975 founding for military apparel, a myth corrected, a 1987 Air Force A-2 re-issue, and a 2006 sale to Eckō Unltd in the United States.

Military Apparel, Honestly Dated

The Avirex record is a useful corrective to how flight clothing is usually marketed. A brand for military apparel founded in 1975 trades on the look and construction of service garments - above all the A-2 flight jacket it worked on re-issuing for the United States Air Force in 1987 - without a wartime supplier history. A shopper researching an Avirex jacket should therefore date the garment's story correctly: the design heritage is the Air Force's, the brand heritage is Jeff Clyman's from 1975, and the re-issue work of 1987 is where the two genuinely meet.

The 2006 sale explains the brand's double life in the record: the Avirex sportswear and hip-hop fashion lines in Europe, Japan and the United States passed with the brand and trademark to the new owner, Eckō Unltd in the United States. A name that began in military apparel thus also lives in hip-hop fashion - two audiences, one label, both halves of the sale. The label is not an independent military outfitter; its status from 2006 is an owned brand.

Reading This Avirex Record

No official brand website is given for Avirex, so none is listed in References. Its directory frame is the same as every page in this letter: the Men's Fashion Brands index and its further pages, the Fashion Designer Directory, the popular brands section, and the shopping, retail, wholesale, buyers and news areas are in the navigation and More to Explore list.

Avirex, under A in the Men's Fashion Brands directory: an American clothing company founded by Jeff Clyman in 1975 as a brand for military apparel, not a World War II supplier, which worked on re-issuing the A-2 jacket for the United States Air Force in 1987, and whose brand, trademark and sportswear and hip-hop lines were sold in 2006, with Eckō Unltd as the new owner in the United States. A short history, a corrected myth, and a dated sale.