Michael Kors Women's Fashion Brand

Michael Kors is a world-renowned, award-winning designer of luxury accessories and ready-to-wear. His namesake company, established in 1981, currently produces a range of products under his signature Michael Kors Collection and MICHAEL Michael Kors labels. These products include accessories, footwear, watches, jewelry, men's and women's ready-to-wear, eyewear and a full line of fragrance products. The record closes with the designer's full name and trade: Michael David Kors is an American sportswear fashion designer.

That short record holds the three facts a shopper needs. First, the date: a namesake company established in 1981, which makes the label a contemporary of the American sportswear era its designer is identified with. Second, the two-label structure: Michael Kors Collection is the signature tier, MICHAEL Michael Kors the second label, and the range - accessories, footwear, watches, jewelry, ready-to-wear, eyewear and fragrance - is produced under those two labels between them. Third, the centre of gravity: the profile's own title leads with handbags and luxury accessories, which is where the women's business is anchored.

Two Labels, One Sportswear Eye

Shop the labels distinctly. A piece under Michael Kors Collection is the signature line of an award-winning designer of luxury accessories and ready-to-wear; a piece under MICHAEL Michael Kors belongs to the broader label, where the accessories-led range - handbags, watches, footwear, jewelry, eyewear and fragrance alongside ready-to-wear - reaches its widest audience. Comparing a bag or a watch across the two labels without noting which label it carries mistakes the house's own architecture for a quality mystery.

American sportswear, the closing description of the designer, is the styling key for the women's ready-to-wear in both labels: clean, wearable separates designed as a system rather than as occasion pieces. Build purchases that way - a bag, watch or pair of shoes from this house is designed to work across a wardrobe of its ready-to-wear, and the fragrance line completes the accessories programme. Judge hardware, leather and watch finishing in hand; at luxury-accessory prices, construction is the argument.

An Accessories-First House

The M letter divides its designer names by centre of gravity, and this profile's is accessories: Kors is a designer of luxury accessories and ready-to-wear, in that order; the page title leads with handbags, and the product range lists accessories, footwear, watches, jewelry, eyewear and fragrance outnumber clothing categories. That ordering tells a first-time buyer where the house's depth lies - and where comparison shopping against other accessories houses in this directory, from Marc Jacobs on the neighbouring page to the handbag-only Maxx New York entry, is most usefully done.

The brand's official site, michaelkors.com, is linked in the references, along with Apparel Search's Michael Kors designer-directory page in this page's links. A company established in 1981, two labels from signature Collection to MICHAEL Michael Kors, and a range running from handbags and watches to fragrance: Michael Kors is the M letter's American luxury-accessories house, bought by label first and construction second.

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