Men's Fashion Brands A

Welcome to the A section of the Men's Fashion Brands directory. In this area of the fashion brand directory you will find men's fashion brands from leading apparel companies and fashion designers that begin with the letter A: fifteen brand profiles in all, gathered in the grid below - Abercrombie & Fitch, Adidas, Affliction, Akademiks, Alexander Julian, Alfani, American Apparel, American Essentials, Andrew Marc, Anvil Knitwear, Armani, Ashworth, Asics, Avirex and Axis. A is the directory's opening letter and one of its most varied: sports giants, streetwear labels, a golf outfitter, a blank-apparel institution and an Italian fashion house share its single page of the alphabet.

If you know of an important men's clothing brand that begins with the letter A and is not listed in this section, please let us know. And if you are specifically looking to review luxury fashion, you can try the Fashion Brand Directory - sound guidance for a letter that holds Armani and Andrew Marc. The A-to-Z letter links are in this page's alphabet bar.

The Fifteen A Brands

The sports end of the letter is its spine. Adidas is present through its own statement of mission - the Badge of Sport and the adidas Originals sub-brand that carries its DNA from the courts to the streets. Asics carries a founding story: Kihachiro Onitsuka making basketball shoes in his Kobe living room in 1949, and the ASICS name, a sound mind in a sound body, chosen in 1977. Ashworth is the golfers' brand, founded as Charter Golf in 1987 by Gerald Montiel and John Ashworth and acquired by TaylorMade-Adidas in late 2008, which ties it, inside this one letter, to the adidas family its neighbour profile describes.

Streetwear and casual brands fill the middle of the letter. Abercrombie & Fitch is recorded as the New Albany, Ohio retailer of upscale casual wear with its Casual Luxury trademark and 2005 Fifth Avenue flagship. Affliction, launched in Seal Beach in August 2005, and Akademiks, the Harrell brothers' 1999 streetwear intersection of art, music and fashion, are the letter's graphic labels. American Apparel is kept as a historical profile: founded by Dov Charney in 1989, closed as a retailer in January 2017, its intellectual property bought by Gildan for $88 million - the same Gildan that bought this letter's Anvil Knitwear, the 130-year-old blank apparel maker, in May 2012, a cross-reference both profiles make.

The letter's remainder is its quiet variety. Alexander Julian is the colour designer who designed his own fabrics, founded his company in New York in 1975 and relaunched the brand from its 40-year archive with his son Huston. Alfani is Macy's private wear-to-work label, and American Essentials a luxury loungewear label described in five garments and four fabrics with no history stated and none invented. Andrew Marc is the 1982 leather goods label turned high-end outerwear house; Armani the Italian house with its own guide to telling Giorgio Armani, Prive, Collezioni, Emporio Armani and Armani Jeans apart; Avirex Jeff Clyman's 1975 military apparel brand, explicitly not a World War II supplier, sold to Ecko Unltd in 2006; and Axis closes the letter as a shared name - three businesses, honestly unpacked. Every fact in this summary is set out in full in the profile it names.

How to Use This A Hub

Start from the kind of research you are doing. For a brand's story, open its profile: each one gives its founding facts, ownership changes and product claims in full, states plainly where information is thin - American Essentials, Alfani, Ashworth and Avirex carry no official site, and those profiles say so - and gives the official brand site in References wherever one is available. For a purchase, use the shopping buttons on each profile and the men's clothing store directory linked from every page, and judge each garment against the standard its own profile sets.

Fifteen names open the Men's Fashion Brands directory: two sports giants and a golf label, two streetwear names and a casual-luxury retailer, a closed basics maker kept as history and the blank-apparel house its buyer also acquired, a colour designer, a store's own label, a loungewear line, two outerwear and tailoring houses, a military label with a corrected myth, and a name shared by three businesses. That is the A section, in its order and its range.