Apparel Companies R

Welcome to the R section of the Apparel Search Fashion Company Names directory. The chip grid below is this letter's table of contents: 15 company profiles, one chip each, in alphabetical order. R is one of the directory's most varied letters. It holds two of the world's great luxury poles - Ralph Lauren, the American lifestyle empire that began with 26 boxes of wide ties in 1967, and Richemont, the Swiss group whose Maisons include Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels - and, a few shelves down, some of its hardest-working value names: Riders and Rustler jeans, Ross Stores' off-price racks, and a Karachi printer, Rehan, whose hangtags and woven labels are the only product most garments ever get from Pakistan's apparel trade.

The filings are not all the same kind of company, and the hub does not pretend otherwise. There are product brands (Reebok, Reef, Rockport, Rocawear, Russell Athletic), retailers (Ross Stores, Rue La La, and the now-closed RTW Retailwinds), a fashion publisher (Refinery29), a luxury holding group (Richemont), a business-to-business supplier (Rehan Printers) and a small London denim label (Ruby London). Each profile below opens with a verified snapshot of the company as it stands now - several of these names have changed owners since their filings were written - and keeps the older record on a linked history page where the record is substantial, so a dated figure is never mistaken for a current one.

Reading the R Profiles: Empires, Survivors and Fossil Records

Begin with the two timelines. Ralph Lauren's profile keeps the company's own year-by-year chronology from 1967 to 2006 - the polo shirt in 24 colors, the Gatsby costumes, the Westernwear stampede, the home collection, the Rhinelander mansion flagship - and Richemont's keeps the acquisition ledger from the 1988 Rembrandt spin-off to the 2015 YOOX Net-a-Porter merger. The two companies meet inside the letter: in 2007 they formed the Ralph Lauren Watch and Jewelry Company together. Russell Athletic's timeline is the third long record - a 1902 Alabama mill, the invention of the sweatshirt, the military contracts, the Major League Baseball uniform deal and the 2006 Berkshire Hathaway purchase.

Then read the survivors' shelf. Reebok's filing preserves an adidas-era results summary from 2014; the brand now belongs to Authentic Brands Group, which also bought Rockport - filed here with its full path from a 1971 van in New England through Reebok, adidas and New Balance's Drydock division - out of bankruptcy in 2023. Rocawear travelled from Jay-Z and Damon Dash to Iconix and, unusually, back to Jay-Z. Ross Stores' filed figures are from fiscal 2013, and its profile sets the company's fiscal 2025 scale beside them. RTW Retailwinds is the letter's closed company: its stores are gone, its New York & Company and Fashion to Figure brands continue online under Saadia Group, and its profile is kept as history under this directory's standing rule.

Finally, notice the fossil record in the middle of the letter. Three filings - Reef, Riders and Rustler - were all written as divisions of VF Corporation, in three utterly different voices: surf poetry, a women's fit promise and a work jean's guarantee. VF's jeans brands moved to Kontoor Brands in 2019 and Reef to The Rockport Group in 2018, so the three profiles now point at three different owners, while their VF-era texts remain on their history pages exactly as a record of how a conglomerate once shelved them together. Refinery29 (a 2005 New York city guide, now inside Sundial Media Group), Rue La La (the 48-hour boutique clock, now half of Rue Gilt Groupe) and Ruby London (Kate Eccles' embroidered-yoke jeans with a hidden aphorism in every pair) complete a letter that runs from Madison Avenue to a Karachi label press without leaving the alphabet.