Men's Fashion Brands I

Welcome to the I 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 I: four brand profiles in all, gathered in the grid below - Impact, Insport, Isaac Mizrahi and Izod. I is the directory's most uneven letter: one of its four records is a full company history running across four decades, one is a designer filing of two garments, and two are names recorded by their directory position alone - and this hub presents each at its own depth.

If you know of an important men's clothing brand that begins with the letter I and is not listed in this section, please let us know. Each profile below gives its brand in full - Izod's licensing history and crest-versus-crocodile distinction in complete detail, Isaac Mizrahi's dress shirts and pants filing and its designer profile route, and a plain statement wherever information is thin, as it honestly is for Impact and Insport. Nothing has been padded to make the four records look alike.

The Four I Brands

Izod carries the letter. Izod is a mid-range company making dressy-casual clothing, men's sportswear, footwear and accessories, and tells its whole story: Vincent Draddy licensing the Lacoste shirt in 1952 to add prestige to Izod of London, the Izod Lacoste decades in which the public mistook the crocodile for Izod's own mark, Crystal Brands' early-1990s separation of the names, the license's end in 1993, and the sale to Phillips-Van Heusen in 1995 that led to its PVH Heritage Brands home. Against that, Isaac Mizrahi is the letter's focused middle: a designer brand filed by men's dress shirts and pants, with a direct route to the directory's designer profile.

Impact and Insport close the letter - the two brands with the least information available. Each of these brands is presented by its name as a men's fashion brand, with the directory's standard search and news routes, and no history, product list or dates - Insport's name suggesting the sporting side of menswear without confirming any specialty. Their profiles state that plainly, and add the research and garment-judging guidance a thin record calls for. A directory's trustworthiness is built exactly here: Izod's history is given in full, and none is fabricated for its neighbours.

How to Use This I Hub

Start from the kind of research you are doing. For a brand's story, open Izod's profile, the letter's one full history, and follow Isaac Mizrahi's designer-profile route for the designer himself. For brands with little information, use the directory routes on each profile - popular brands, the designer directory, retail and wholesale listings and the news pages - to cross-check a name before treating it as identified. 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 records, from the Izod emblem test - crocodile for Lacoste, crest for Izod - to the dress-shirt and trouser checks on the Isaac Mizrahi page.

The editorial links for this letter are in the grid below, the alphabet bar, the navigation and each profile's own lists. Four names make the I section: a polo-shirt history that runs from 1952 to a 1995 sale, a designer filing of shirts and pants, and two names kept by their position alone. That is the I section: four brands, presented plainly.