Apparel Companies P

Welcome to the P section of the Apparel Search Fashion Company Names directory. The chip grid below is this letter's table of contents: 12 company profiles, one chip each, in alphabetical order by company name. P is a letter of specialists and giants side by side. It holds the company that numbers the world's colors and the school that taught Seventh Avenue its trade, a fabric maker whose product hides inside other brands' jackets and a trade show with no clothes of its own, two famous company families filed under two names each, and a social shopping site whose profile is now a historical record. Read in one sitting, the letter is a cross-section of how many different kinds of business the single word fashion has to cover.

The page hub for this letter listed seventeen names, and the five that are not in the grid below deserve their explanation here, because every one of their routes is kept unchanged in this page's links. Payless ShoeSource is filed in the C section with Collective Brands, Piperlime was a Gap Inc. brand filed in the G section with the Gap family, and P.S. from Aeropostale is filed in the A section. Premium Trade Show (Berlin) lives on Apparel Search's trade shows pages rather than in the names directory, and the Fashion Companies J to R route groups this letter with its neighbours. A hub's first duty is to send a reader to the right filing, including when the right filing turns out to live under a different letter, a parent company or a different section of the site.

Reading the P Profiles: Families, Specialists and a Time Capsule

Two families in this letter are each filed twice, deliberately, and the pairs are built to be read as pairs. Perry Ellis International is the parent: a licensor and marketer whose portfolio, distribution and sourcing fill its page, while Munsingwear Original Penguin, nested one folder deeper under Perry Ellis, is a single brand's story - a 1955 golf shirt, an action gusset and a stuffed penguin named Pete. PVH is the second pair, joined by a date: the Phillips-Van Heusen page is the short record of the June 23, 2011 renaming, preserving the old name's stock, news and careers routes, while the PVH Corporation page carries the full history from 1876 and 1881 through the Van Heusen collar to Calvin Klein and over $8 billion in 2014 revenues. In both pairs the pages cross-link each other and share almost no sentences, because a parent and a brand, or an old name and a new one, are different subjects that happen to share a family.

The specialists repay slower reading. Pantone's profile explains how a numbered fan book from 1963 became the standard language for color from designer to manufacturer to retailer to customer, and how its Fashion, Home + Interiors system put 2,310 colors into cotton and paper. Parsons' history runs from the 1896 Chase School through the first fashion design program to a design education now shared across four affiliate schools abroad. Polartec files over 300 technical fabrics under one umbrella, from the page synthetic fleece to flame resistant military fabrics, while Patagonia's short profile ends with the most unusual fact in the letter: a company given away in September 2022 to a purpose trust and a nonprofit collective. Prada Group gathers five unlike houses, PROJECT files the juried trade show that grew from 50 brands to 900 plus, and Puma organizes world sport into business units from Teamsport to Motorsport.

One profile must be read in its own tense. Polyvore's page opens with its April 5, 2018 announcement that it had been acquired by SSENSE, and labels everything after it, in its own words, as historical reference: the millions of visitors, the 28 million sets counted in April 2011, the clips and the virtual styling tool are the record of an operating company that no longer operates under that name. Apparel Search keeps such filings as history rather than deleting them, and this hub lists Polyvore among the letter's twelve for the same reason. If you know of an important fashion company beginning with P that is missing here, you are welcome to make suggestions, as the page hub invited - and if your company belongs under a parent in the G, C or A sections instead, the cross-references below show exactly how this directory handles that case.