Clothing Company List

Clothing Company Directory ...  (DEFINITIONS) presented by Apparel Search
This section is for very large Fashion Industry Corporations ...

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try the Brand Name Fashion page.

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Definitions of Corporations, Not Just Brands

This list operates at a different level from a brand directory. The entries are definitions and profiles of large corporations in the fashion industry — the owners behind brands rather than the brands on the labels. Banana Republic is a brand; the corporation behind the entries here is the kind of company that owns Banana Republic. That distinction explains the list's membership: Banana Republic and Brooks Brothers appear alongside Levi Strauss Company, LVMH — LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton S.A. — Marks and Spencer, PPR and Francois Pinault, Richemont and Anton Rupert, Tesco and VF Corporation. Some entries are operating retailers, some are luxury groups holding many houses at once, and one is a supermarket group, which reflects how far the ownership of fashion brands extends beyond companies that think of themselves as fashion companies.

Why a Corporate List Goes Out of Date Faster

Corporate information is subject to change as the company evolves, and the reason is stated directly: these companies will often buy or sell fashion brand licenses or entire fashion companies. A brand's own definition changes slowly — its founder, its signature products and its founding date do not move — but a corporation's definition changes every time it completes an acquisition or a disposal, because the list of what it owns is the definition. Keeping this section up to date is correspondingly difficult in a fast-paced industry, and the guidance given is to visit each company's web site for the most current details, with links provided when possible. A corporate profile is therefore best read as a dated snapshot of a portfolio at the moment it was written, checked against the company's own current statements before it is relied on.

Where the List Sits Among the Other Resources

The page places its corporate list inside a wider set of Apparel Search resources and points readers onward according to what they are actually looking for. Readers searching for specific fashion designers or fashion brands are directed to the Brand Name Fashion page, the Fashion Designer page and the Popular Brands page; readers who want to shop instead of doing designer research are directed to the Clothing Store section and the Shopping pages; and readers interested in luxury fashion are pointed to the fashion brand directory. The list also sits beside USA Clothing Companies, Fashion Companies, Fashion Guides and Directories, Fashion Industry Designer Profiles, Popular Brands, Color Trends and Forecasting, Merchandising, Fashion Industry News, the Definition List and the Apparel Stock Market. In that arrangement the corporate definitions serve the industry reader — the person who needs to know who owns what — rather than the shopper or the student of a single brand.