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Clothing (also called clothes,
accoutrements, accouterments, or habiliments) protects the human body from
extreme weather and other features of the environment. It is worn for safety,
comfort, and modesty and to reflect religious, cultural and social meaning.
The practical function of clothing is to protect the human body from dangers in
the environment: weather (strong sunlight, extreme heat or cold, and
precipitation, for example), insects, noxious chemicals, weapons, and contact
with abrasive substances, and other hazards. Clothing can protect against many
things that might injure the naked human body. In some cases clothing protects
the environment from the clothing wearer as well (example: medical scrubs).
Humans have shown extreme inventiveness in devising clothing solutions to
practical problems and the distinction between clothing and other protective
equipment is not always clear-cut; examples include space suit, air conditioned
clothing, armour, diving suit, swimsuit, bee-keeper's costume, motorcycle
leathers, high-visibility clothing, and protective clothing.
People also decorate their bodies with makeup or cosmetics, scented perfume, and
other ornamentation; they also cut, dye, and arrange the hair on their heads,
faces, and bodies (see hairstyle), and sometimes also mark their skin (by
tattoos, scarifications, and piercings). All these decorations contribute to the
overall effect and message of clothing, but do not constitute clothing.
Articles carried rather than worn (such as purses, canes, and umbrellas) are
normally counted as fashion accessories rather than as clothing, but hats and
small dress sweaters can be called clothing or accessories. Jewellery and
eyeglasses are usually counted as accessories as well, even though in common
speech these particular items are described as being worn rather than carried.
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Abercrombie & Fitch
Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) is an American
lifestyle brand and company that markets youth apparel. It encompasses five
brands: the namesake flagship brand Abercrombie & Fitch, abercrombie, Hollister
Co., RUEHL No.925, and Gilly Hicks. Products bear the moose logo, and are only
available in A&F stores, located in the United States, Canada, and England, and
its website. Competitor brands include Gap, American Eagle Outfitters, Buckle,
Urban Outfitters, and Rugby Ralph Lauren.
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American Eagle Outfitters
American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO) is
an American clothing and accessories retailer based in the South Side
neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1977 by Sean Peters
and Frank Perretta as a subsidiary of Retail Ventures Incorporated, a company
which also owned and operated Silverman's Menswear. The Silvermans sold their
ownership interests in 1991. At one time, it sold brands such as OshKosh in the
early 1980s, similar to Gap selling Levi's.
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Banana Republic
Banana Republic is a chain of mainly
United States based clothing stores founded by Mel and Patricia Ziegler in 1978
as a travel-themed clothing company. It was bought by Gap Inc. in 1983. The
company has over 500 stores.
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Canadian Apparel Federation
As the national association that
represents hundreds of companies in this industry, the Canadian Apparel
Federation (CAF) is the only forum in which distinct industry sectors can come
together to work together, enhance communication and build strength in the face
of 21st-century global business challenges.
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Divine.ca
Divine.ca is a Canadian online magazine
with content updated each weekday. Its target audience (pitched to advertisers)
is women aged 19-34. Its aim is to focus on Canadian content. Reviews and
articles about fashion, relationships and nutrition are a prominent feature of
the site. Divine.ca also partners with Yahoo! Canada to present lifestyle
content on the Yahoo! site. The site is published in French and English.
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Fashion Net
Fashion Net is a fashion-specific search
engine and guide aimed at style conscious consumers. It was founded by Stig
Harder in 1994 in Paris, France. Now headquartered in New York, the site is
available in English and Japanese. When launched in January 1995, it was
Internet's first fashion site and as such helped motivate the fashion industry
to go online.
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Forever 21
Forever 21 is a chain of clothing
retailers throughout the United States, Canada, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia,
United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and China
offering fashion and accessories for young women and men. Most of the retailer's
apparel is private label and made in Southern California.
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Gap (clothing retailer)
Gap, Incorporated (NYSE: GPS) is an
American clothing and accessories retailer based in San Francisco, California,
and founded in 1969 by Donald Fisher and Doris Fisher. As of October 2006, Gap,
Inc. had approximately 150,000 employees and operated 3,139 stores worldwide in
the United States, Canada, Mexico, France, Ireland, Indonesia, Japan, South
Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, Turkey, the United Arab
Emirates, and the United Kingdom.
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Guess
Guess, (styled as GUESS?) is a popular
American name-brand clothing line that uses a question mark as its emblem. It is
known for its sexualized advertising campaigns, which have featured explicit
black-and-white photographs of fashion models and actresses such as Claudia
Schiffer, Valeria Mazza, Adriana Lima, Drew Barrymore, Anna Nicole Smith, Paris
Hilton and Jordan.
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H&M
Hennes & Mauritz AB (operating as H&M), is
a Swedish clothing company, known for its inexpensive and fashionable clothing
offerings for women, men, teenagers and children. H&M has more than 1,500 stores
in 28 different countries and has more than 68,000 employees.
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J.Crew
J.Crew Group (NYSE: JCG) is an American
clothing and accessories retailer based in New York, New York. Founded in 1983
with the launch of its mail order catalog, the company expanded into brick and
mortar retailing in 1989 with its first store at the South Street Seaport in New
York City. As of May 2008, the company operates 198 retail stores and 65 outlet
stores in the United States.
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La Senza
La Senza Corporation is a large fashion
retail group based in Montreal, Quebec which specialises in own-branded stores
located in shopping centers, as well as online shopping. Since its first store
opened in 1990, the company has grown to include more than 300 stores in Canada.
A further 430 stores under the La Senza brand operate in 38 other countries
worldwide via licensing, franchise and cooperation agreements. La Senza
Corporation is wholly owned by Limited Brands of Columbus, Ohio.
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Levi Strauss & Co.
Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&CO) is a privately
held clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's brand of denim jeans. It
was founded in 1853 when Levi Strauss came from Bavaria, Germany to San
Francisco, California to open a west coast branch of his brothers' New York dry
goods business. Although the company began producing denim overalls in the
1870s, modern jeans were not produced until the 1920s. The company briefly
experimented (in the 1970s) with employee ownership and a public stock listing,
but remains owned and controlled by descendants and relatives of Levi Strauss'
four nephews.
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Old Navy
Old Navy is a brand of clothing and chain
of stores owned by Gap, Inc. Old Navy's corporate operations are within Gap in
San Francisco and San Bruno, California. It is one of the first major
corporations to house headquarters in the new Mission Bay district of San
Francisco. Gap, Inc., was run by President and CEO Paul Pressler from September
2002 - January 22, 2007. Robert J. Fisher served as Interim Chief Executive
Officer commencing January 22, 2007. Glenn Murphy is the current CEO of Gap,
Inc.
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SHOWstudio.com
Launched in November 2000, SHOWstudio.com
is an online fashion broadcasting company. The concept behind SHOWstudio was
developed by photographer Nick Knight and graphic designer Peter Saville; they
envisioned a website that would take viewers ‘behind the scenes’ of creative
spheres such as fashion and art, allowing them to view the entire creative
process as it happened by harnessing possibilities of the Internet.
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The Sartorialist
"The Sartorialist" is a fashion blog by
Scott Schuman, a former director of men's fashion at Bergdorf Goodman in New
York. After leaving his position to take care of his daughter in 2005, he began
carrying a digital camera around on the streets of New York City, taking
pictures of people who had dressed in some way that caught his eye, and then
posting them to his blog, sometimes with comments about what he finds.
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Style.com
Style.com is the online site for the
fashion magazine Vogue featuring online versions of some of the magazines
content as well as internet-exclusive material such as event photographs and
style-related articles. Style.com contains fashion news reporting, trend
reports, and extensive galleries of fashion-show photos, among other content.
Its editor-in-chief is Dirk Standen and Executive Fashion Director is Candy
Pratts Price. According to Alexa Internet, it is the most-visited women's
fashion magazine site online. As of April 2007, its overall Alexa rank was
1,653.
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Victoria's Secret
Victoria's Secret is an American retailer
of women's wear, lingerie and beauty products. It is the largest brand and a
segment of publicly traded Limited Brands with sales surpassing $5 billion and
an operating income of US$1 billion in 2006. Victoria's Secret is known for its
fashion shows and catalogues, which feature top fashion models.
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