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 I. The two companies are Ibex Outdoor Clothing and Iconix Brand Group, covering wool clothing designed for outdoor use and brand management and licensing across apparel, footwear and accessories, and each name links to a full definition page describing the company, its products and its history.
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The letter I holds just two companies, and they represent opposite ends of how a clothing business can work. Ibex Outdoor Clothing makes a physical product in a single fiber: wool clothing designed for outdoor use, sold through its website and retailers. The company began when Peter Helmetag and John Fernsel met in 1997, both sharing a passion for wool and the outdoors, and it uses wool as the primary fabric in all of its clothing, citing wool's ability to regulate temperature, its anti-microbial properties and its resistance to wear. Ibex made 1.5 million dollars in sales in 2001 and supports its natural materials position with environmental practices including the use of CVPS Cow Power electricity.
Iconix Brand Group, by contrast, makes almost nothing itself. It is a brand management company that licenses brands to retailers and manufacturers, primarily in the apparel, footwear and apparel accessory industries, with its brands available in stores including Kohl's, Kmart, Sears, Macy's, Target and JC Penney. The company began as Candie's, Inc., purchased the Candie's brand in 1993, and then built a portfolio by acquisition: Bongo in 1998, Badgley Mischka in 2004, Joe Boxer and Rampage in 2005, Mudd, London Fog, Mossimo and Ocean Pacific in 2006, and Danskin, Rocawear and Starter in 2007.
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. A two-company letter is a useful reminder of what the format captures: Ibex is defined by a material and a founding partnership, Iconix by a sequence of dated acquisitions, and both records fit the same short profile shape.
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. Companies change — they are acquired, renamed, relaunched or close — so a definition records the company as described at the time of writing, including dated facts such as acquisitions with their years, so the record stays useful even after the company itself has moved on. For a licensing company like Iconix, those dates are the story: each purchase added a brand whose clothing would be designed, made and sold by licensees in major retail stores.
The I list covers Ibex Outdoor Clothing and Iconix Brand Group. 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.