Apparel Companies Q

Welcome to the Q section of the Apparel Search Fashion Company Names directory. The chip grid below is this letter's table of contents: 2 company profiles, one chip each, in alphabetical order. Q is the directory's smallest working letter, and unusually its two filings are not strangers - they are a parent and its most famous creation. Quiksilver, the boardriding company built on late-1960s Torquay boardshorts, is filed here with its full history, its brand family and its dated 2015 reorganization record. Roxy, the women's line Quiksilver launched in 1990, is filed separately because it earned a separate history: the first women's line from an authentic surf brand, the women's boardshort, and a championship team and event circuit of its own.

Do you know any other fashion companies that start with Q? Quiksilver is this letter's main name, and Roxy is reached through the Quiksilver filing as well as listed in the grid above, so a reader arriving for either name lands directly on it. This page also links to its A-to-Z letter bar, its fashion jobs and fashion news links, and back to the full company names directory. This section does not include all apparel companies; it is a selection, added to periodically, and suggestions are welcome through the directory's Add Your Company route.

Reading the Q Profiles: A Boardriding Parent and Its Women's Line

Begin with Quiksilver itself. Its profile leads with the September 9, 2015 Chapter 11 record - a pre-arranged reorganization for the U.S. units, supported by 73% of U.S. secured noteholders, with foreign subsidiaries unaffected and control planned to pass to Oaktree Capital Management. Behind that headline sits Alan Green's February 2006 Torquay account of the late-1960s founding: snaps and Velcro instead of flies, a yoke waist higher at the back, the Klemm-Bell shop in Gardenvale as first customer, and a coastline of surf shops supplied between surf sessions. The same filing carries the brand family - Radio Fiji, DC Shoes with its 1993 founding and 2004 acquisition, Lib Tech, GNU and Roxy - and the company's own routes to its men's, women's and children's brand guides, its news, jobs and financial pages.

A note on how to use this letter is worth adding, because Q rewards a different kind of reading than the long letters do. There is no long alphabetical sprawl to skim and no cluster of unrelated industries sharing an initial. Instead the two filings form a single case study in how a specialist brand grows: a product made for a community the founders belonged to, sold through the shops that community trusted, extended into a second audience the page company was brave enough to take seriously, and eventually tested by the financial pressures that reach even authentic brands. Researchers tracing one name will almost always need the other, which is why each profile below links to its sibling and to this hub.

Then read Roxy on its own terms. Launched as swimwear in late summer 1990 and past $1 million in sportswear sales within a year, Roxy is filed as a first: no authentic surf brand had built a women's line before, and the others followed. Its milestones are specific - the heart-shaped crest in 1993, the women's boardshort idea on a Hawaii beach, Lisa Andersen joining as first team member in 1994, the first women's pro event at Sunset Beach in winter 1995, and a product expansion running from denim and snowwear through snowboards in 2003 to a toddlers' line in 2005. Roxy is described as a $400 million lifestyle brand; quote that figure with its mid-2000s filing period attached.