Women's Fashion Brands R

Welcome to the R 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 R: seven brand profiles in all, gathered in the grid below. R is one of the directory's most varied letters - an American luxury house, an Italian designer house, two athletic makers, a premium denim label, a young contemporary label and a surf brand sit side by side - and this hub introduces each at the size its own profile keeps.

If you know of an important women's fashion brand that begins with the letter R 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, while readers looking specifically for luxury fashion can use the fashion brand directory links in this page's navigation.

Seven R Brands: Luxury, Denim, Athletic and Surf

The letter opens with Ralph Lauren - as iconic as they come, per its profile, with classic and luxurious styling - and Roberto Cavalli, the Italian house founded in 1970, known for exotic prints, a patented leather-printing procedure and the sand-blasted look for jeans. Between and around them sit the denim and contemporary names: Rock & Republic, the American jeans brand founded by Michael Ball in 2002, rooted in premium denim; and Rampage, the young contemporary label established in 1982 for women ages 18 to 32. Each of the four is a different answer to what a women's brand is - heritage luxury, designer print, premium jeans, and trend-led contemporary - and their profiles keep those differences exact.

The letter's second family is athletic and surf. Reebok is the global athletic footwear and apparel company whose 1982 Freestyle, manufactured and marketed for women, accounted for more than half its sales in 1984; Russell Athletic, founded in Alabama in 1902, made its first garment a women's and children's knit shirt and began producing the iconic sweatshirt in 1930; and Roxy, started by Quiksilver in 1990 as a swimwear line, grew through sportswear, denim and snowwear into a global lifestyle brand with its own heart-shaped logo from 1993. Three of the seven R profiles, in other words, carry women's-first founding stories - a useful reminder that this letter's range runs from the playing field and the beach to the runway.

How to Use These R Profiles

Read each profile for the record it actually keeps. Ralph Lauren's gives the corporation's four premium lifestyle categories and its family of brand names; Cavalli's dates the leather-printing patent era, the 1994 sand-blasted jeans and the May 2017 creative director change; Rock & Republic's gives the full 2010 to 2012 bankruptcy, VF and Kohl's record as history; Rampage's gives its 1982 founding, its 18-to-32 positioning, its campaign faces and its purchase by Iconix; Reebok's and Russell's give their dated women's milestones; and Roxy's gives its year-by-year 1990 to 1993 expansion.

Readers can move onward from here across the whole A-to-Z of women's brand letters, to the women's brands main pages and the fashion brands directory, to the Clothes Guide, and to Apparel Search's schools, news, jobs, fashion, retail and wholesale sections - in the alphabet bar, the navigation or under More to Explore. Seven profiles, four centuries of combined brand history, and one letter that contains both the sweatshirt's invention and the sand-blasted jean: R rewards a slow browse.