Clothing Company Definitions — United States clothing company definitions from Apparel Search
This index lists United States clothing company definitions for companies whose names begin with the letter A. The eleven companies run from golf equipment and golf apparel to teen retail, streetwear, basketball footwear, motorcycle clothing and graphic t-shirts, and each name links to a full definition page describing the company, its products and its history.
In this section of the Apparel Search website, you will find clothing company definitions. The names of the companies in this area begin with the letter "A".
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The A list is a useful cross-section of the American clothing business, because its eleven companies work in very different parts of the industry. Two are golf businesses: Acushnet Company, the equipment group behind Titleist, FootJoy, Scotty Cameron, Cobra and Pinnacle, and Ashworth, a golf apparel maker later acquired by TaylorMade-adidas. One is protective sportswear of a different kind: AGV Sports Group makes motorcycle safety clothing for road race and sportbike riders under the AGVSPORT brand. AND1 is basketball — shoes and apparel built around streetball culture and the Mixtape Tour.
Retail and contemporary fashion are represented by Aéropostale, the mall retailer for 14 to 17 year olds whose name is French for air mail, and by Alice + Olivia, Stacey Bendet's contemporary women's label launched at Barneys in 2002. Streetwear and graphic apparel account for four of the eleven: Affliction Clothing, with its mixed martial arts inspired graphics; Akademiks, Donwan Harrell's denim-led youth brand; and two musician-linked shirt labels, Artus Clothing of Los Gatos and ASMclothing of Cleveland, both of which built their designs and their marketing inside local music scenes. Andrew Christian completes the list from the underwear and swimwear category, a Los Angeles designer label whose products are made in the USA.
United States clothing companies are filed alphabetically by company name, one letter per index page, so a company can be found by its first letter even when its full history is unknown. Each definition is a concise profile rather than a full company history: founding facts, headquarters, products, brands and lines, ownership where it is notable, and the events that made the company worth defining. Readers who need more depth on a company can follow the path into the Apparel Search fashion company profiles in the names directory, where major companies carry fuller profiles, and the clothing definitions list covers the garment and fabric terms used in these pages.
Companies change — they are acquired, renamed, or close — so a definition records the company as described at the time of writing, including dated facts such as acquisitions with their years. Where a definition gives a date, a founder or a place, that detail is part of the company's record and the quickest way to tell similar names apart.
The A list covers Acushnet Company, Aéropostale, Affliction Clothing, AGV Sports Group, Akademiks, Alice + Olivia, AND1, Andrew Christian, Artus Clothing, Ashworth and ASMclothing. Each name links to that company's definition page.
Each definition page describes the company itself: what it makes or sells, when and where it was founded, the brands and lines it owns, and the notable events in its history, in a short standardised profile format.
Use the United States clothing company definition directory to reach the index page for every letter from A to Z. Fuller company profiles are also available in the Apparel Search fashion company profiles in the names directory.