Women's Fashion Brands V

Welcome to the V 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 V: nine brand profiles in all, gathered in the grid below in listing order. V is a letter of extremes - two Italian couture houses and a Milanese shoe label at one end, a lingerie name from 1899 in the middle, and three California youth-culture brands at the other - and this hub introduces each in proportion to its record.

If you know of an important women's fashion brand that begins with the letter V 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 the A-to-Z letter links ride in this page's alphabet bar, exactly as the directory has always laid them out.

Nine V Brands: Couture, Lingerie and California

The letter opens in Italy. Valentino is Valentino Garavani's house, founded in 1960, debuted in Florence in 1962, acquired by Mayhoola for 700 million euros in 2012 and led since July 2016 by sole Creative Director Pierpaolo Piccioli. Versace is Giovanni Versace's 1978 creation - launched as Gianni Versace Donna, known for the Medusa head, flashy prints and bright colours, and for the 1994 safety-pin dress Elizabeth Hurley made famous. Via Spiga, established in 1985 and named for Milan's famed shopping street, is the letter's Italian footwear specialist, all luxurious materials and architecturally inspired sleekness.

The American middle and west complete the nine. Van Heusen is PVH's women's line, known for dress shirts and named for floral tops, stretch pull-on jeans, office casual and quilted vests; Vanity Fair, making women beautiful since 1899 and now part of Fruit of the Loom, is the lingerie record - first with fashion colours, animal prints and coordinated sleepwear, covered here strictly as product. Vera Wang is New York's bridal revolutionary of 1990, ready-to-wear from 2000 and CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Year in 2005. And California closes the letter three times: Vans, the Van Doren brothers' 1966 Anaheim shoe shop that skateboarders adopted; Volcom, founded in 1991 on a Tahoe snowboard trip with $5,000 and a stone logo; and Von Dutch, the Los Angeles brand named for pinstriper Kenny Howard, whose daughters sold his name in 1992.

How to Use These V Profiles

Read each profile for its record. Valentino's gives the ownership chain and the creative-director succession with its dates; Versace's keeps the line structure, the Medusa and the full 'THAT Dress' story; Vans' keeps the founding address, the Era and Old Skool numbers and the jazz-stripe doodle; Volcom's keeps the Tahoe anecdote entire, snowed-in excuse and all. Where the record is shorter - Via Spiga's single positioning page, Von Dutch's name-and-sale history - the profile is brief, and Vanity Fair's coverage stays product-focused, as this directory's sensitive-category rule requires.

The V hub points readers onward - to each of its nine brands in its own order, and across the whole A-to-Z of women's brand letters - those editorial links are carried in the pages here, in the grid below, the alphabet bar and the navigation. Nine profiles spanning 1899 to 1991, from Milan and the Carlyle Hotel to Anaheim and Costa Mesa: V is the directory's widest single-letter range.