Popular Brand Names: Designer Brands for Clothing and Fashion

Popular Brand Directory

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Most Popular Fashion Brands – Fan Favorites

Purchase Popular Brand Fashion at Auction. The fan favorites are:

• Gucci
• Prada
• Fendi
• Diesel
• Dolce & Gabbana
• Roberto Cavalli
• Pucci
• Chanel
• Valentino
• Dior
• Jean Paul Gaultier
• YSL
• Versace
• Armani
• Marithe & Francois Girbaud
• Salvatore Ferragamo
• Krizia
• Helmut Lang
• Hugo Boss
• Missoni
• Iceberg
• Jil Sanders
• Laura Biagiotti
• Etro
• Hermes
• Issey Miyake
• Celine
• Emanuel Ungaro
• Nina Ricci
• Vivienne Westwood
• Romeo Gigli
• Cerruti
• Luciano Soprani
• Byblos
• Rocco Barocco
• Gianfranco Ferre
• La Perla
• Alberta Ferretti
• Miu Miu
• Moschino
• Versace
• Katherine Hamnett
• Tom Ford
• Coogi
• Mugler
• Trussardi
• Cividini
• Bally
• Via Spiga
• Norma Kamali
• Guy Laroche
• Istante
• Jean Louis Scherrer
• Pierre Cardin
• Karl Lagerfeld
• Massimo Dutti
• Viviana Soppeno

Popular Designer Names

Research the following fashion brands at auction: Prada, Fendi, Diesel, Dolce & Gabbana, Roberto Cavalli, Pucci, Chanel, Valentino, Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Yves St. Laurent, Versace, Armani, Marithe & Francois Girbaud, Salvatore Ferragamo, Krizia, Helmut Lang, Hugo Boss, Missoni, Gucci, Celine, Pierre Cardin, Karl Lagerfeld, Massimo, Via Spiga, Norma Kamali, Guy Laroche, Istante, Jean Louis Scherrer, Coogi, Iceberg, Viviana Soppeno, Jill Sanders, Laura Biagiotti, Etro, Hermes, Issey Miyake, Emanuel Ungaro, Nina Ricci, Sonia Rykiel, Vivienne Westwood, Romeo Gigli, Cerruti, Luciano Soprani, Byblos, Rocco Barocco, GFF Gianfranco Ferre, La Perla, Alberta Ferretti, Miu Miu, Moschino, Gianni Versace, Katherine Hamnett, Thierry Mugler, Trussardi, Cividini, Exte and Bally.

About Popular Brands

The Popular Brands section of Apparel Search is where the top names in fashion are gathered in one place, from luxury houses and designer labels to sportswear, denim and streetwear brands that sell in quantity at retail. If you have suggestions for the addition or removal of designers from this list, contact Apparel Search with your thoughts and suggestions. If you are looking for additional wholesalers — designers and companies selling clothing to retail stores — visit the Wholesaler section, which organizes suppliers by the clothing they sell.

Each entry in the directory gives the brand name and its corporate website, so a retailer, a researcher or a shopper can move from a name on a label to the company behind it in one step. Where a note adds something useful, it is kept with the entry: the country a smaller label is based in, the company that owns the brand, or the fuller form of the name, as with Izod, listed as owned by Phillips Van Heusen Corp., and OP, listed in full as OP – Ocean Pacific.

Wholesale Brand Directory

The Clothing Wholesalers directory is a leading online guide for retailers to locate fashion industry wholesalers. You can use the wholesale directory, which includes the popular fashion brands page you are currently on, to locate wholesale distributors of designer brand-name fashion. A brand name matters in wholesale because it carries recognition into the store: a retailer stocking a label customers already know spends less effort explaining the garment, and the brand's sizing, quality standards and seasonal lines give the buyer a predictable range to order against. Start from the audience directories in the guides above when you know who you are buying for, and from this A–Z list when you know the name but not the company behind it.

Companies That Own Many Brand Names

Do you know what wholesale clothing means in practice for the biggest fashion companies? Some companies own or license a large number of brand names. Jones Apparel Group, for example, is a leader in the apparel and footwear industries. Jones designs and markets a broad array of products, including sportswear, jeanswear, suits, dresses, menswear, shoes, accessories and costume jewelry. Jones markets its products under nationally known brands, including Jones New York, Evan-Picone, Rena Rowan, Todd Oldham, Nine West, Easy Spirit, Enzo Angiolini and Napier. Its licensed brands have also included Lauren by Ralph Lauren, Ralph by Ralph Lauren and Polo Jeans Company, licensed from Polo Ralph Lauren. You can find additional companies of this size in the fashion industry public company section. The lesson for directory users is that one corporate website can stand behind many familiar labels, so checking who owns a brand is often the fastest route to its wholesale contact.

Buying Popular Brand Fashion

Purchasing new and at high prices is not a necessity. You can find your favorites at traditional retail stores such as fashion boutiques or department stores, and you also have the option to find top fashion brands at auction, which is why this page keeps two research lists below the main directory: the fan favorites, and the popular designer names that shoppers most often research at auction. For retailers, the same names work in the other direction: a brand with a strong auction following is one whose wholesale lines are worth a closer look, because proven demand second-hand usually means proven demand on the rail.

Luxury and High-End Fashion

Many of the names in the directory sit at the luxury end of the market. If you are working through the terminology as well as the names, the glossary entries for Luxury Fashion and High-end Fashion explain what those labels mean, and the fashion designer section is a great area to learn about popular fashion designers name by name, including the designers behind the houses listed here.

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