Fila Women's Fashion Brand

A century after its humble beginnings, Fila has become synonymous with performance and sophistication. Worn not only by internationally recognized athletes, but by the fashion conscious, Fila uses premium fabrics designed to radiate the sophistication of Italian craftsmanship, while allowing maximum flexibility and performance. Their legacy of style earns them admiration from women who enjoy sport as well as fashion - a double customer, athlete and dresser at once, that this page is written for.

Whether you perform for the challenge of adventure, the rigor of competition, or simply the pleasure and well-being of an active life, Fila will help take you wherever you want to go, because they understand that the beauty of sport is that of a life in motion. That is the brand's own philosophy, and it sets the shopping standard for everything below: a Fila women's piece has to work in motion first, and look Italian second - in that order, however good it looks.

From Italy in 1911 to Fila Korea in 2007

The corporate facts are short and exact: Fila, Inc. is a South Korean sporting goods company; Fila was founded in 1911 in Italy; and since a takeover in 2007 by Fila Korea, Fila is now owned and operated from South Korea. No founder names, no founding family and no extra timeline is known. What those three facts do explain is the brand a shopper actually meets: Italian-born design language and craftsmanship claims, carried today by a Korean sporting goods owner and operator.

That combination is worth understanding before judging a rail. The sophistication the profile claims is an inheritance - premium fabrics and Italian styling cues from the brand's origin - while the performance side is the present owner's sporting goods business. A piece that delivers only the look, in fabrics that cannot flex, breathe or survive training, has kept the inheritance and dropped the business; a piece that performs without any of the style has done the reverse. The brand's promise is both at once.

Shopping Performance Clothing Well

Test in motion, as the philosophy demands. Tops and leggings should allow maximum flexibility without pulling at seams or going sheer in a deep bend; fabrics should feel premium in the hand - smooth, substantial, quick to recover when stretched - and stitching at stress points should be flat and even, because sport clothing fails at seams before it fails anywhere else. Try pieces with the shoes and layers they will actually be worn with, and move in them: reach, lunge, twist, sit.

Care is what keeps performance fabrics performing: wash cool and inside out, skip heavy softeners that coat technical fibres, and dry as labelled so stretch recovers instead of relaxing. Founded in Italy in 1911, owned and operated from South Korea since the 2007 Fila Korea takeover, worn by athletes and the fashion conscious alike - Fila's women's clothing is best bought the way its own motto frames it, for a life in motion, and judged every time by whether the piece moves as well as it looks.

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