Women's Fashion Brands K

Welcome to the K 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 K: 5 brand profiles in all, gathered in the grid below, from Karen Neuburger to K-Swiss. K is a compact letter with an unusually wide span - a sleepwear specialist founded on pajamas made for the founder herself, a handbag label that grew from six silhouettes into a global lifestyle brand, a three-line wardrobe house that began with shoes, a model-designer's aspirational lifestyle labels, and a tennis footwear classic founded by two Swiss brothers in Los Angeles.

If you know of an important women's fashion brand that begins with the letter K 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. Every profile in this letter gives the facts - founding dates, ownership changes and the founders' own words - with shopping guidance built around them.

Five Brands: Sleepwear, Handbags, Wardrobe Lines, Lifestyle Labels and Court Shoes

The letter opens with Karen Neuburger, who started as a buyer for Maurice's department store in Duluth, Minnesota, became a vice president for an apparel company in San Francisco, and first developed pajama sets for herself before friends demanded their own; in 1994 she formed her namesake sleepwear brand, KN Karen Neuburger, believing the best moments in life are experienced in pajamas. In 1997 she sent her pajamas to Oprah, who wore them for the first airing of 'Oprah's Favorite Things' and applauded the cozy, comfortable, relaxed fit - the start of the all-day sleepwear revolution - and the range grew to robes, Mommy & Me, KN Inspire Loungewear and KN Cool, passing in early 2011 to Delta Galil, which acquired it from Russell-Newman, Inc. Kate Spade follows: Kate Brosnahan Spade, a former accessories editor at Mademoiselle, set out in 1993 to design the perfect handbag, debuting with six silhouettes that combined sleek, utilitarian shapes and colorful palettes, and Kate Spade New York was born. Neiman Marcus bought 56% in 1999 and the rest in 2006, sold the label for $124 million in 2006 to Liz Claiborne Inc., and Coach, Inc. acquired it for $2.4 billion in May 2017 before renaming itself Tapestry; today it is a global lifestyle brand aiming to inspire colorful living, and in 2016 the founder launched a new brand, Frances Valentine, with her partners.

Kenneth Cole is the letter's wardrobe house: the brand began in 1982 with shoes and expanded to a wide variety of apparel, and Kenneth Cole Productions sells clothing and accessories under three lines - Kenneth Cole New York, Kenneth Cole Reaction and Unlisted - designing men's and women's footwear, men's and women's clothing, and accessories under the Reaction line, from suits, dress shirts and denim to jackets, belts, dress shoes and sneakers. Kimora Lee brings the lifestyle-label story: an American fashion model and designer who was creative director of Baby Phat, the label launched in 1999 as a branch off Phat Farm Industries, and who was promoted by Kellwood in September 2007 to President and Creative Director of Phat Fashions after Russell Simmons sold Phat Farm to Kellwood for $140 million in 2004 and stepped down as CEO; her goal was to turn Baby Phat into an aspirational lifestyle brand, her high-end sportswear line KLS launched in fall 2007, she left Kellwood in 2010, and in June 2015 she relaunched KLS as a high end line with a first boutique in Beverly Hills - bold yet streamlined ready-to-wear and accessories, luxury-priced for women juggling work, family and other aspects of life. K-Swiss closes the letter on the tennis court: founded in 1966 in Los Angeles, California, by two Swiss brothers, Art and Ernie Brunner, who became interested in tennis after immigrating to the United States, and driven from the beginning by an entrepreneurial spirit and a steadfast pursuit of turning dreams into reality, creating a footwear brand focused on tennis - today bridging court performance and everyday comfort with heritage-inspired designs, reinventing modern court style for the game changers of tomorrow.

Each profile links onward - to the brand's official site in its references, to the Delta Galil, Tapestry and Kellwood company profiles, to the Kate Spade designer page, to the Baby Phat and Frances Valentine brand pages, to K-Swiss brand news, and across the directory to popular brands, designers, retail and wholesale guides, woven into the copy or listed under More to Explore. Five brands spanning 1966 to 1994, a founder's pajamas, a perfect handbag, a shoe company that became a wardrobe, a model's lifestyle labels and two brothers' tennis shoes make K a small letter with a complete fashion story of its own.