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Dickies is a clothing company known primarily for its largest brand name, Dickies. The company was founded in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1922 by C. N. Williamson and E. E. "Colonel" Dickies, who started a denim workwear company that sold to farm and ranch workers in the Southwest.
Carhartt was founded by Hamilton Carhartt in 1889 in Detroit, Michigan, to make work clothing for manual laborers. The company started with two sewing machines and five workers. Carhartt's first slogan was "Honest value for an honest dollar."
Polar Skate Co. - is a skate team and brand all in one. Behind the ambitious project from the industrial Swedish city of Malmö is renowned skateboarder Pontus Alves. Dissatisfied with performances for large teams (Mad Circle, Arcade and Emerica), he decided to create his own. Thus, in 2011, Polar Skate Co.
In 1973, surfer friends Richard Novak, Doug Hout and Jay Schuirman founded NHS, an acronym from the initials of their last names: Novak, Hout and Sherman. It was difficult for the newcomers to stay in business as the profitability of surfboard production was low, but unexpectedly a friend from a Hawaiian company ordered 500 skateboards, and as they had a surplus of fibreglass and very few customers, they used these materials to fill the order and in 1973 the first Santa Cruz skateboard was produced. The skateboards quickly sold out, another 500 boards were ordered, and Santa Cruz Skateboards was born.
Twenty years ago skateboarding was hitting a generational boom. More than a single trick, event, or moment, the culture of skateboarding was resonating past its roots. Nike saw a way to push that progression further.Nike SB was formed in 2002. Rather than making the best possible shoes for skateboarding, SB and Sandy Bodecker sought to understand the landscape, the ecosystem, and the personalities driving it. The shops, the spots, the diehards, the sessions, the collaborations, the collectors, and the creatives that made it unique.
Brothers Paul Van Doren and Jim Van Doren, along with partners Gordon Lee and Serge Delia, opened their business on 16 March at 704 E. Broadway in Anaheim, California. The name House of Vans was coined by skateboarders in the early '70s who liked the rough cosmetics and sticky soles of Vans and first saw them in Anaheim storefronts. (SKATEBOARDERS WHO LIKED THE ROUGH MAKE-UP AND STICKY SOLES OF VANS WEAR THEM ALL OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA).
Arc'teryx is a Canadian brand specialising in professional outdoor clothing and equipment. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in British Columbia. It is part of the Amer Sports holding company, which is controlled by China's Anta Sports. The company's name and logo refer to Archaeopteryx. The company's founder, Dave Lane, named the company Rock Solid. The company's first product was rock climbing equipment. In 1991, then-CEO Jeremy Guard changed the company's name to Arc'teryx, a reference to the flying dinosaur Archaeopteryx, to reflect the company's vision of creating "disruptive 'evolutionary' innovations in the outdoor industry".
Stone Island Founded in 1982 in the northern Italian town of Ravarino, Stone Island is the brainchild of Massimo Osti, a revolutionary fashion designer and garment engineer from Bologna. Named after the nautical novels of Joseph Conrad, it was conceived with a deep philosophy of research, experimentation and function. Osti didn’t simply design fashion, he engineered it. He developed thousands of new fabrics, treatments and dyeing processes, and created new possibilities of what clothes could be. The brand released thermo-sensitive sweaters that change colour with the temperature and a “liquid reflective jacket” which reflects light off tiny glass microspheres that are painted onto its surface by hand, then dried out in an oven.
C.P. Company is an Italian clothing brand founded in 1971 by designer Massimo Osti. The brand was originally called Chester Perry at the suggestion of his friend, fashion entrepreneur Corrado Zannoni, but the name was changed in 1978 following a lawsuit by Chester Barry and Fred Perry over the use of their first and last names. The C.P. Company often designs clothing for military uniforms and work suits. It has become known for its military-style functional outerwear and its use of innovative fabrics, processing and design techniques. Her "Mille Miglia" jacket (also known as the "Goggle jacket", 1988), has two clear lenses on the hood - "goggles" - and one on the wrist, for a wristwatch. Since 1975, C.P. Company has produced over 40,000 garments.
Moncler S.p.A. is an Italian luxury fashion house specialising in ready-to-wear outerwear headquartered in Milan, Italy. Since its inception as a down jacket boutique, Moncler has been producing waistcoats, mackintoshes, windbreakers, knitwear, leather goods, footwear, perfumes and related accessories. The main trademarks of the company are a rooster (cockerel), the monogram "M", a badge with felt applique, crossed skis and a mascot in the form of a cartoon duck.
Evisu was founded in Osaka Japan in 1991 and is named after the Japanese god of prosperity Ebisu. Each pair of Jeans was caringly hand-painted with the famous seagull logo. EVISU captured the imagination of the detail-obsessed Japanese fashion crowed and spurred a revival of interest in vintage denim which spread around the world. Today EVISU has gained critical acclaim, as one of the ultimate denim must haves, is internationally known and embraced by both collectors and hipsters alike.
In the 1940s, Fred Perry was approached by an ex-Austrian football player, Tibby Wegner, who had invented the first sweatband. Wegner and Perry worked together to launch the sweatband as the first product in the Fred Perry clothing line. The next idea for the label was to produce a sports shirt, and hence the signature Fred Perry polo shirt was born. Launched at Wimbledon in 1952 the polo became an immediate success. Although at the time it was only available in white and branded specifically as a tennis shirt.
The history of New Balance began back in 1906 in the United States in the city of Belmont, where 33-year-old English immigrant William Riley founded a laboratory for the development and production of orthopaedic footwear. In 1962, the company develops and produces the Trackster running shoe, which is the first to be produced in a range of sizes, both in length and in fullness, and has several technological innovations, such as a grooved sole. Aerobics founder Keneth Cooper becomes the first celebrity to run the Boston Marathon in New Balance shoes.
Weekend Offender is a British brand that produces clothing for everyday life. It is also popular among football fans. The brand was founded by Sam Jones and Rhydian Pawell in 2004 in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. The first attempt was to print fragments of old newspapers on T-shirts, but the T-shirts were not successful. In 2009, Aaron Thalmann, who previously owned the Golddigga brand, joined the team. They created Eighty8 Ltd, which began distributing the brand's clothing.
Burberry Group plc is a British luxury fashion house founded in 1856 by Thomas Burberry and headquartered in London, England. The company currently designs and distributes ready-to-wear apparel, including trench coats (which are the most famous), leather accessories, and footwear. Burberry was founded in 1856 when 21-year-old Thomas Burberry, a former drapery apprentice, opened his own shop in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England.
Prada S.p.A. is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in 1913 in Milan by Mario Prada. It specialises in the production of leather handbags, travel accessories, footwear, ready-to-wear and other fashion accessories. Prada licences its name and branding to Luxottica for eyewear and L'Oréal for perfumes.The company started in 1913 by Mario Prada and his brother Martino as Fratelli Prada, a leather goods shop in Milan.Initially, the shop sold animal goods, imported English steamer trunks, and handbags.
Balenciaga SA is a luxury fashion house founded in 1919 by Spanish couturier Cristobal Balenciaga in San Sebastian, Spain, and now based in Paris. Balenciaga produces ready-to-wear shoes, bags and accessories, and licenses its name and branding to Coty for fragrances. It is currently owned by the French corporation Kering.
Stüssy is an American private fashion house founded in the early 1980s by Sean Stussy. It benefited from the surfwear trend that originated in Orange County, California, but was later adopted by the skateboard and hip-hop scenes. In 1984, Stussy and his friend Frank Sinatra Jr. (no relation to the singer) teamed up to sell clothing. In 1988, the company expanded its operations to Europe, opened a boutique in Soho, New York, and opened several other locations throughout the 1990s. Revenues reached $17 million in 1991 and $20 million in 1992.