Women's Fashion Brands I

Welcome to the I 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 I: 3 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 this small letter holds three genuinely different kinds of brand: a retailer's own private label, a named New York designer, and a sportswear name with a long licensing history behind its polo shirt.

If you know of an important women's fashion brand that begins with the letter I 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 - with only three profiles, I is the letter to read whole before moving on through the alphabet bar above.

Three Brands: A Private Label, a Designer and a Polo-Shirt Legend

The letter opens with INC International Concepts: INC is a private label brand owned by Macy's, an abbreviation for International Concepts, whose women's range covers handbags, shoes, jeans, shirts, petites, plus sizes and accessories, with dresses, jackets, pants and skirts for formal and casual occasions and shoes and jewelry to tie a look together. Its sweaters alone tell the line's character - solid color pullovers, three-quarter sleeve draped sweaters and cardigans, an always chic and in trend selection. No founding history is known for INC: a private label's story is its range and its retailer, and both are stated in full.

Issac Mizrahi follows - the directory's file name keeps its long-standing 'Issac' spelling while the designer is Isaac Mizrahi. He is an American fashion designer and Chief Designer of the Isaac Mizrahi brand for Xcel Brands, based in New York City, who launched his eponymous label in 1987 to critical acclaim including four Council of Fashion Designers of America awards. The brands provide style to customers of every age, size and culture - a true Democracy of Fashion which Isaac himself pioneered - and the design formula is exact: shapes and silhouettes classic, clean and refined, execution exuberant, bold and confident, the epitome of iconic American fashion standing for timeless, cosmopolitan style.

Izod closes the letter with the directory's most cautionary history. Izod is a mid-range company producing dressy-casual clothing, sportswear, footwear and accessories - and it is NOT Lacoste: Izod Lacoste was sportswear licensed to Izod by Lacoste from 1952 to 1993, Vincent Draddy having begun the license to add prestige to the Izod line, which is why the two still-similar piqué polo shirts are so often confused; Lacoste carries the crocodile, Izod a monogram crest. The license ended in 1993, Izod was sold to Phillips-Van Heusen in 1995 and sits in PVH's Heritage Brands division, its women's sportswear launched wholesale in 2003 by licensee Kellwood Company, paused by 2015 except the golf line, and returned from February 2018 under a June 2017 licensing agreement with Sports Products of America for women's sportswear, golfwear and activewear.

From these pages you can follow the brands onward - to Macy's for INC, to isaacmizrahi.com, to the Xcel Brands and Council of Fashion Designers of America profiles, to the PVH company profile and the price point definition page, and across the directory to popular brands, designers, retail and wholesale guides - woven into the copy or listed under More to Explore. Three brands, three structures - retailer-owned, designer-led and license-built - make I a small letter with an outsized lesson in how fashion brands are actually organised.