Women's Fashion Brands D

Welcome to the D section of the Women's Fashion Brands directory. In this area of the fashion brand directory you will find women's fashion brands from leading apparel companies and fashion designers that begin with the letter D: 13 brand profiles in all, gathered in the grid below. When browsing this directory you will find some of the most stylish clothing and hottest fashion labels in the world of ladies fashion - and in this letter, a cross-section that runs from an 1882 dancewear house to a 1906 base layer revolution without changing its initial.

If you know of an important women's fashion brand that begins with the letter D and is not listed in this section, please let us know. And if you prefer to search by clothing category rather than by a specific clothing brand, the Clothes Guide linked from this page organises the same wardrobe by garment instead of by name.

Thirteen Brands, From the Dance Studio to the Catwalk

The letter opens with D'Orsay - a women's shoe brand with no published brand history, photos or official site, presented here as a guide to the d'Orsay pump, the two-piece shoe with cut-away sides. Danskin follows with the deepest roots in the letter: synonymous with femininity since 1882, a family business catering to New York City dancers with tights, tutus and leotards, grown into the ultimate female active brand for dancewear, activewear and fitness equipment - its name sold to Iconix Brand Group in March 2007 and licensed back to Triumph Apparel Corporation, with distribution through more than 2,500 dance shops and its 2017 Jenna Dewan Tatum campaign recorded on its profile. Delta Burke Design, founded in New York in 1994, made reasonably priced, comfortable and flattering clothing for full-figured ladies over 35, by a designer-manager famous as Suzanne Sugarbaker in Designing Women.

The designer houses anchor the middle of the letter. Diane von Furstenberg, the Belgian-American designer formerly Princess Diane of Fürstenberg, introduced the knitted jersey wrap dress in 1974 - an example sits in the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art - and built DVF into a global luxury lifestyle brand in over 70 countries with 45 free-standing shops. Donna Karan, the pioneer who designed for women as one of them, founded her house in 1984 and dazzled consumers of fashion, footwear and accessories from 1989 with iconic silhouettes and an innovative system of dressing, now reimagined as Donna Karan New York beside its next-generation counterpart. Her diffusion line DKNY, founded in 1989 inspired by her daughter Gaby, became synonymous with New York's energy and attitude - LVMH owned the company from 2001 until it sold Donna Karan International, with the Donna Karan and DKNY brands, to G-III Apparel Group for $650 million in 2016 - and DKNY Jeans carries the family's separate profile as the branch focused on the jean collection, among siblings from DKNY Active to DKNY Pure.

Italy and the shoe floor complete the letter. Diesel, created in 1978 and based in Breganze, grew from a denim pioneer into premium casual wear under Renzo Rosso's philosophy of passion, individuality and self-expression, producing no less than 3,000 new products every season across Diesel and Diesel Black Gold. Dolce & Gabbana, founded in Legnano in 1985 by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana - who met in Milan in 1980 and opened a designer consulting studio in 1982 - brings Italian luxury shoes, handbags and catwalk fashion. Dolce Vita is a women's shoe brand of eye-catching, on-trend sandals, sneakers, boots and heels, with no further published history. Donald J Pliner, since 1989, stakes its reputation on innovative materials and quality craftsmanship in luxury footwear, joining fashion, fit and comfort in styles from the GAIL heeled sandal to woven metallics. Donna Ricco, born and raised in Milwaukee and trained in Fine Arts and then fashion at Mount Mary College, moved to New York after graduation and launched her own label. And Duofold closes the letter where warmth begins: the base layer revolution of 1906, Beecher Crouse's balance of cotton comfort and wool warmth in dual-layer technology, now part of the Champion division at HanesBrands.

The profiles link onward to the Danskin company profile, the designer profiles for Diane von Furstenberg, Dolce & Gabbana and Donna Karan, the DKNY definition, the DKNY Men profile, the LVMH and G-III company profiles, the Champion and HanesBrands pages, and the other letters of this directory from A to Z, woven into the copy or listed under More to Explore. The letter grid below carries the 13 profiles, and the alphabet bar above carries the other letters of the women's brands directory.

Every profile in this letter states its facts directly - founding years, designers, ownership changes, sales and licensing deals - with shopping guidance built around them. Start with the name you came for, or read the letter whole: D is a good letter to browse, because almost every way of dressing a woman - dancewear, denim, wrap dresses and thermal layers - is represented in it.