Men's Fashion Brands K

Welcome to the K 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 K: two brand profiles in all, gathered in the grid below - Kenneth Cole first, then K-Swiss. K is a small letter with two sharply different profiles. One is a full American fashion house that began with shoes in 1982 and expanded across a man's whole wardrobe; the other is a tennis footwear brand created in California by two Swiss brothers, whose first famous shoe arrived in 1966.

If you know of an important men's clothing brand that begins with the letter K and is not listed in this section, please let us know. The two profiles are sharply different in depth and subject - Kenneth Cole on its September 1982 naming, its shoe-first start and its named wardrobe categories, and K-Swiss on the Brunner brothers, their ski-boot inspiration and the all-leather Classic. Nothing about the two brands is alike - one is a wardrobe, the other is a court shoe with a clothing range beside it - and that contrast is exactly what a brand directory is for.

The Two K Brands

Kenneth Cole is the letter's wardrobe house. Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc. is an American fashion house founded in 1982 by Kenneth Cole, who originally named the company Kenneth Cole Incorporated in September 1982. The brand began with shoes and expanded to include a wide variety of apparel for a man's wardrobe: suits, dress shirts, denim pants, jackets, belts, dress shoes and sneakers. A researcher can therefore follow one house from tailoring to denim to two kinds of footwear, with the founding category, shoes, underneath the whole range.

K-Swiss is the letter's specialist. Two Swiss brothers, Art and Ernie Brunner, moved to California to create a footwear brand focused on tennis; as avid skiers and tennis players, they took inspiration from leather ski boots to create a court shoe with a tight fit that supported aggressive side-to-side movement. Introduced in 1966, the K-Swiss Classic was the world's first all-leather tennis shoe and powered some of the best tennis players of the time to win major championships. The range also includes tennis shoes, clothing and apparel for a man's wardrobe, and the profile gives an ownership line dated 2018.

How to Use This K Hub

Start from the kind of clothing you are researching. For a full wardrobe - a suit or dress shirt for work, denim pants and a jacket for casual wear, a belt, dress shoes or sneakers - open Kenneth Cole and use its category list as your checklist, remembering that the house began with shoes in September 1982 under its original Kenneth Cole Incorporated name. For tennis footwear, open K-Swiss and start from fit: the brand was founded on a tight fit for aggressive side-to-side movement, with an all-leather upper borrowed in spirit from leather ski boots, so a court shoe from this record should be judged on hold and lateral support before anything else.

Two names make the K section: an American fashion house founded in 1982 that grew from shoes into a complete men's wardrobe, and a tennis brand built in California by two Swiss brothers around the world's first all-leather tennis shoe in 1966. Use the grid below, the alphabet bar and the navigation to move between this hub and its two profiles.