Men's Fashion Brands P

Welcome to the P 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 P: seven brand profiles gathered in the grid below in alphabetical order - Patagonia, Paul Fredrick, Pearl Izumi, Perry Ellis, Phat Farm, Polo and Puma. It is a letter of founders and their vehicles: a climber's forge, a delivery bicycle, a dress-shirt fitting matrix, a designer's first collection, a record label, an embroidered pony and two brothers' shoe factory.

If you know of an important men's clothing brand that begins with the letter P and is not listed in this section, please let us know. Each profile below gives its brand's record without padding: dates, founders and founding stories, and an honest note wherever a brand has no official site or a spelling of its own.

The Seven P Brands

Patagonia is the outdoor record: founded by Yvon Chouinard in 1973 and based in Ventura, California, out of hand-forged climbing gear sold from 1957, a 1965 partnership with Tom Frost, collared shirts that became the primary product in the 1970s, and the 1989 bankruptcy separation that kept the profitable clothing division under the Patagonia name, beneath the Cerro Fitz Roy skyline logo. Paul Fredrick is the dress-shirt record: classic menswear founded over 30 years ago, dress shirts first, designed, manufactured and directly distributed with no wholesalers and no store fronts, and up to 89 unique combinations of sleeve, collar and fit in a single dress shirt style. Pearl Izumi is the cycling record: Kinji Shimizu riding 38 miles a day in 1950 to deliver 90 pounds of clothing, a Tokyo father producing Japan's first bicycle racing apparel for his racer son, and today a major brand of technical-performing cycling and triathlon apparel.

Perry Ellis is the designer record: a global lifestyle brand born from a forward-thinking man who believed fashion was fun, whose first unapologetically American collection in 1976 redefined American sportswear, and whose clothes are still designed to be distinctively unexpected. Phat Farm is the streetwear record: a national line created by Russell Simmons, Def Jam Recordings co-founder, begun in 1992 from a small New York City showroom, credited with pioneering the standard hip-hop look and bringing hip-hop style with a preppy twist to center stage. Polo is the classic record: high quality men's apparel whose Polo shirt, in cotton mesh with a 982-stitch embroidered pony, has been an icon of American style since 1972, inside Ralph Lauren Corporation's five-decade premium lifestyle house. Puma is the split record: founded in 1948 by Rudolf Dassler when the 1924 Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik divided into Adidas and PUMA, today PUMA SE of Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, making fast product designs for the fastest athletes on the planet.

How to Use This P Hub

Start from the mountain, the shirt, the saddle, the sketch, the street, the pony or the track. For outdoor clothing for various adventures, open Patagonia and judge by the Fitz Roy standard. For a dress shirt fitted from up to 89 combinations, open Paul Fredrick. For technical cycling and triathlon apparel, open Pearl Izumi and apply the details-matter rule. For distinctively unexpected American sportswear, open Perry Ellis. For the hip-hop-and-preppy mixture, open Phat Farm and shop the pairing, not just the piece. For the classic wardrobe around an icon of 1972, open Polo. For athletic and casual footwear and apparel with a speed record, open Puma.

The eight pages in this P section - this hub and its seven 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. Seven names make the P section on their own pages: the climber, the shirtmaker, the cyclist, the designer, the label founder, the pony and the cat. That is the P section, with its order, its dates and its distinctions.