Women's Fashion Brands P

Welcome to the P 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 P: 10 brand profiles in all, gathered in the grid below, from Paige Premium Denim to Puma. P is the directory's premium-denim-and-performance letter - three denim specialists, two sportswear multinationals and an outdoor founder's company on one side; a British tailoring house, an Italian luxury house, a classic American wardrobe, a television-commerce collection and a heritage undergarment brand on the other.

If you know of an important women's fashion brand that begins with the letter P 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, quoted announcements and the founders' own words - with shopping guidance built around them. Two profiles are notably short: Pamela McCoy, with only a dated December 2014 announcement, and Polo, whose women's collection is described in wardrobe terms inside its parent house.

Ten Brands: Denim, Sport, Tailoring, Luxury and One Heritage Label

The letter opens with denim and a television homecoming: Paige Premium Denim, launched in February 2005 at Intermix, Ron Herman, Bergdorf Goodman and Harvey Nichols, developed by Paige Adams-Geller with Los Angeles wash-houses and wear-testing as policy; Pamela McCoy, the replica fur, replica leather and sportswear collection developed exclusively for EVINE Live, a featured brand for 12 years before its two-year break and its live December 12-13 homecoming announced on December 9, 2014; and Patagonia, founded by Yvon Chouinard in Ventura, California in 1973 out of his climbing-hardware company, named for the far-off region whose Fitz Roy skyline is its logo, donating one percent of sales to grassroots environmental organizations for 30 years.

The middle of the letter pairs tailoring with two more denim names: Paul Smith, the English designer whose reputation rests on a special focus on tailoring and whose 'classic with a twist' principle, set down in 1970, positions the house between high fashion and formalwear; People's Liberation, founded in 2004, the expressive premium denim label recognised for signature back pocket designs, superior fits, quality construction and hand-crafted washes; and Pepe Jeans, established on London's Portobello Road in 1973, based in Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Spain, and bought with Hackett London in February 2015 by M1 and L Capital Asia. Playtex follows, treated strictly in product terms: the American undergarment brand begun in 1947 as a division of the International Latex Corporation (founded in Rochester in 1932), home of the Cross Your Heart bra since 1954 and the Eighteen Hour bra, with apparel at HanesBrands since 2007.

P closes with classics, luxury and sport: Polo, the trendy yet classic women's wardrobe of lace tops, leather jackets, dresses, skirts, pants and shoes, spanning downtown-chic to country classic inside Ralph Lauren Corporation's five decades of premium lifestyle products; Prada, the Italian luxury house founded in 1913 by Mario Prada on leather handbags and travel accessories, inherited by Miuccia Prada in 1978, a premium status symbol by the 1990s and joined by Miu Miu in 1992; and Puma, the German multinational headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, whose women's shoe collection covers sport, lifestyle and everything in between, from running shoes and track spikes to soccer cleats and indoor soccer shoes.

How to Use These P Profiles

Read each profile for its own record. Paige, People's Liberation and Pepe Jeans reward denim reading - wash-houses and wear-testing, pocket signatures and hand-crafted washes, a 1973 Portobello Road founding and a 2015 ownership change. Patagonia and Puma reward activity reading - name the sport or activity first, then the garment or shoe built for it. Paul Smith, Polo and Prada reward construction reading - tailoring tests, register and fabric, leather-goods criteria - in that order. Pamela McCoy rewards dated-announcement reading, accepting a December 2014 record at its true size, and Playtex rewards product reading: choose the line first, then the measured size, in strictly construction-and-care terms.

Each profile links onward - to the brand's official site in its references for the nine brands that have one, to Apparel Search's own women's denim and designer jeans guides from the denim pages, the bra and underwear glossaries and HanesBrands profile from the Playtex page, the Ralph Lauren guides and corporation profile from the Polo page, the LVMH profile from the Pepe Jeans page, and the About Puma profile and shoe glossaries from the Puma page, and across the directory to popular brands, designers, retail and wholesale guides, woven into the copy or listed under More to Explore. Ten brands from a Los Angeles wash-house to a Herzogenaurach sports headquarters: P is the women's brands directory at its most premium and its most practical at once.