Men's Fashion Brands M

Welcome to the M 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 M: eleven brand profiles in all, gathered in the grid below in alphabetical order - Marc Ecko first, then Marc Jacobs, Marmot, Martin Gordon, Merrell, Michael Kors, Mizuno, Modern Amusement, Moose Creek, Moschino and Munsingwear. Few letters range wider. The earliest records here are a Minnesota textile factory of 1886 and an Osaka sports company of 1906; the youngest founding stories belong to a glacier-born outdoor label of 1974 and a hiking-boot maker of 1981; and two of the eleven profiles are honest thin pages - a single paragraph and a name alone - kept at exactly their own depth.

If you know of an important men's clothing brand that begins with the letter M and is not listed in this section, please let us know. Each profile below gives its brand's record without padding: dated timelines where they exist, a brand pledge or customer portrait where that is the record instead, and an explicit statement, on the Martin Gordon and Moose Creek pages, of how little is recorded - because a directory that invents the missing history would be worse than the honest gap.

The Eleven M Brands

Marc Ecko is the founder-led streetwear-to-tailoring record: Marc Louis "Eckō" Milecofsky, founder and Chief Creative Officer of Ecko Unlimited, founder of Complex magazine in 2002, maker of the 2004 Cut & Sew collection that blends classic tailoring with bold graphics, and a brand purchased by Iconix in 2013. Marc Jacobs is the designer-values record: head designer of his own label and the Marc by Marc Jacobs diffusion line, creative director of Louis Vuitton from 1997 to 2014, with polo shirts and bold button-downs for work and weekend. Marmot is the outdoor founding story: a club idea born on Alaska's Juneau Icefield in April 1971 in the minds of students Eric Reynolds and Dave Huntley, down prototypes sewn in a dorm room, and a company born in the spring of 1974.

Martin Gordon is the letter's one-paragraph record - men's clothing at various U.S. retailers, classic style and comfort, shirts that may become wardrobe staples, and no history stated or invented. Merrell is the trail record: an American footwear company founded in 1981 by Clark Matis, Randy Merrell and John Schweizer to make high-performance hiking boots, a Wolverine World Wide subsidiary since 1997, with clothing and accessories around the footwear. Michael Kors is the luxury-lifestyle record: Michael David Kors, American sportswear designer, honorary chairman and chief creative officer of his Holdings company, Celine's first women's ready-to-wear designer from 1997 to 2003, and an extensive menswear collection of seasonal separates.

Mizuno is the global-sports record: a Japanese corporation founded in Osaka in 1906 by Rihachi Mizuno, making equipment and sportswear for fourteen named sports and more, under a mission to make people happy through the power of sports. Modern Amusement is the youthful record: a brand for men of 18 to 35 who appreciate the finer things without taking themselves too seriously, defined by dynamic color, graphic energy and an irreverent sense of humor, and purchased by Iconix Brand Group. Moose Creek is the name-only record - a brand carried by name and directory position alone, its profile stating plainly that nothing more is recorded. Moschino is the Italian luxury record: a house founded in 1983 by Franco Moschino, famous for innovative, colorful and often eccentric designs, with a three-label family in order of exclusivity. Munsingwear closes the letter with the staple record: the Minnesota underwear company of 1886 that became the world's largest underwear manufacturer in the 1920s, went public in 1923, was purchased by Perry Ellis International, and gave the world Pete the penguin in 1955.

How to Use This M Hub

Start from the garment, not the letter. For performance footwear and the trail, open Merrell or Marmot and judge by their founding tests - the high-performance hiking boot and the dorm-room down parka. For sport across many fields, open Mizuno and work from its 1906 breadth. For tailored or graphic streetwear, open Marc Ecko's Cut & Sew record; for designer separates, Marc Jacobs and Michael Kors, reading each designer's stated values against the garments. For color and eccentricity at luxury level, open Moschino; for youthful color and humor, Modern Amusement; for classic shirts at U.S. retailers, Martin Gordon; and for the staple end of the wardrobe, Munsingwear, whose underwear record runs from an 1891 crocheting-machine patent to a taxidermist's penguin.

The twelve pages in this M section - this hub and its eleven profiles - carry the brands' records with the directory's shopping and research routes, in the grid below, the alphabet bar, the navigation and each profile's own lists. Eleven names make the M section: two founder-designers named Marc, a glacier club, a one-paragraph shirt label, a bootmaker, a luxury lifestyle empire, a century-old sports corporation, a mischievous youth brand, a name alone, an eccentric Italian house, and the underwear maker that told the world not to say underwear. That is the M section, with its order, its dates and its distinctions.