Women's Fashion Brands H

Welcome to the H 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 H: 13 brand profiles in all, gathered in the grid below in listing order. 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, two minimalist masters, a basics giant, a Norwegian outdoor system, a motorcycle lifestyle, a surf multinational, and two men's names the directory itself honestly corrects.

If you know of an important women's fashion brand that begins with the letter H 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 Discotheque Cashmere to Brushed Suede

The letter opens with Halston: Roy Halston Frowick, the American designer who rose to international fame in the 1970s with minimalist, clean designs in cashmere and ultrasuede that were popular in mid-1970s discotheques and redefined American fashion - and whose HALSTON HERITAGE flagship returned to Madison Avenue in March 2013, 45 years after he opened his first store there in 1968. Hanes follows at the opposite register: the basics giant whose women's underwear and activewear - tees, sweats, leggings - are sold on style, comfort and fit, with onward paths to its HanesBrands profile and the Playtex page. Hard Tail brings the founders' story: Dick and Patty Cantrell launched their pioneering lifestyle and active-wear line twenty-five years before its profile was written, rooted in relaxed California living and a girls-can-do-anything philosophy inspired by their three daughters.

Harley-Davidson is the letter's lifestyle colossus - an American motorcycle manufacturer founded in Milwaukee in 1903 that became much more than a motorcycle company, whose Genuine H-D MotorClothes are worn by a community proud to show its support. Hathaway is the first of H's two honest corrections: the brand itself said 'Oops' - a men's & boys shirt brand, C. F. Hathaway Company of Waterville, Maine, founded in 1837, maker of uniform shirts for Union soldiers, its Maine factory closed in 2002, kept here as history. Helen Welsh is the letter's quiet licensing record: a four-year-old women's accessories company whose majority stake Concept One Accessories acquired in March 2006. Helly Hansen is the great outdoor chronology - founded in Norway in 1877, from Linox and 1949's Helox (30,000 coats a month) through Fibrepile and 1970s LIFA to the birth of the three-layer system, with its ownership passing from Investcorp to Altor to the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.

Helmut Lang is the self-taught minimalist: designing at eighteen, made-to-measure in Vienna, unconventional materials - rubber, feathers, metallic fabrics - a redefined 1990s silhouette, the first collection streamed online, and a 51% stake sold to the Prada Group in 1999. Herve Leger carries a name with a biography: founded in 1985 by Hervé Peugnet, renamed on Karl Lagerfeld's advice, acquired by the BCBG Max Azria Group in September 1998 and relaunched under Max Azria's own design direction in April 2007. Hickey Freeman is the second honest correction - a brand for fine tailored clothing that, per its page, currently appears to only be designed for men. Hugo Boss is the letter's fullest house record: a German luxury house founded in 1924 in Metzingen, a wartime uniform-supplier history its profile states plainly, public in 1985, a full women's collection in 2000 - BOSS Womenswear's beautiful tailoring against HUGO's bold, rule-free self-expression. Hurley is the American surf multinational, designing to worldwide selling, its women's offer named in its title: swimwear, tees, hoodies, shorts. Hush Puppies closes the letter underfoot: founded in 1958 from Wolverine's pigskin-tanning work for the US military, the classic American brushed-suede shoe with the lightweight crepe sole, Jason the basset hound as its logo, a division of Wolverine World Wide.

The H pages point readers onward - to the HanesBrands and Hanes definition pages, the Playtex bra brand, the About Helly Hansen and About Hurley company profiles, the BCBG Max Azria brand, the Wolverine World Wide profile, and the official brand sites - those editorial links are carried in the pages here, woven into the copy or listed under More to Explore. The letter grid below carries the 13 profiles in directory order, and the alphabet bar above carries the other letters of the women's brands directory.

Every profile in this letter follows the brands rule for this directory: the facts are the brands' facts - founding years, designers, ownership and ranges as stated - with shopping guidance built around them and nothing invented in between. Where a listing corrected itself, as Hathaway's and Hickey Freeman's did, the correction stays at the top. Start with the name you came for, or read the letter whole: H runs from a discotheque in cashmere to a basset hound on a suede shoe, and every stop between them is a different way a brand can be built.