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Barking Irons is a design company based on the Bowery in New York City, specialising in casual-contemporary apparel inspired by the history and development of urban centres in the United States. Started in mid-2003 by brothers Daniel and Michael Casarella, the line blends elements of 19th century formality with contemporary denim and rock and roll culture, and won the 2006 Sportswear International Fashion Award.
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Barking Irons is a design company based on the Bowery in New York City, specializing in casual-contemporary apparel inspired by the history and development of urban centers in the United States of America. The clothing line has been noted for blending elements of 19th century formality with contemporary denim & rock and roll culture. The company was started in mid-2003 by brothers Daniel and Michael Casarella and has won several awards including 2006 Sportswear International Fashion Award, and was featured in New York Times Magazine article, "The Brand Underground."
The name "Barking Irons" comes from a 19th century slang term for pistols. The term was created by gangs of youths that haunted New York's infamous Bowery. The Bowery, a theatre district for much of the century, was a critical proving ground for indigenous American culture in the 19th century. Uniquely American art forms such as tap-dancing, minstrel shows, concert saloons, freak shows and vaudeville all gained popularity in the Bowery theatres of the time.
The cultural well-spring of New York's Bowery also helped to usher in a sexual revolution in the latter part of the 19th century. The Bowery continues to be a source of urban folklore and mythology.
Barking Irons has been noted for the extensive historical research and chronicling that is weaved into its products. Storylines have been a driving inspiration for seasonal collections as well as individual designs.
Past Barking Irons collections have drawn inspiration from characters such as P.T. Barnum and his fire-tormented American Museum, as well as the notorious reign of Boss Tweed and his Tammany Hall, New York's brawling fire companies, the devilish dens of the Bowery, such as Blind Tiger and Satan's Circus.
Other collections have focused on the literary sons of early New York and America such as the poet Walt Whitman and writers like, Herman Melville, Stephen Crane, and musicians such as, Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, and Stephen Foster.
The history in Barking Irons essentially utilizes the strange mystique, stories, and legends of the Bowery as a critical stage for the telling of American folklore through a modern lens.
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Barking Irons builds contemporary clothing out of a specific place and period: the Bowery of the 1800s, then New York's theatre district and a proving ground for indigenous American culture — tap dancing, concert saloons, vaudeville and freak shows all gained popularity in its theatres. A historically themed collection takes details from that world — the formality of 19th century dress, its fabrics, fastenings and silhouettes — and reworks them into denim-led casual clothing a modern customer can wear daily, with rock and roll culture as the bridge between the two eras.
That approach has a discipline to it: the history has to be real enough to survive attention, because the story is the product. The name itself is period slang, and the collections are presented as historically themed rather than costume. Recognition followed that coherence — the 2006 Sportswear International Fashion Award and a New York Times Magazine feature on underground brands — the typical reward pattern for a small label whose identity is unusually clear. Barking Irons is a case study in how a two-brother design company can compete without scale: one neighbourhood, one century, one consistent point of view.
Barking Irons is a 19th century slang term for pistols. The term was created by gangs of youths that haunted New York's Bowery, the theatre district that anchors the brand's historical collections.
Barking Irons was started in mid-2003 by brothers Daniel and Michael Casarella. The company is based on the Bowery in New York City.
Barking Irons makes casual-contemporary apparel inspired by the history and development of American urban centres. The line has been noted for blending elements of 19th century formality with contemporary denim and rock and roll culture, and it was featured in a New York Times Magazine article, The Brand Underground.