Clothing

Aritzia Clothing Corporate Office

Growing up in Vancouver, Canada, Brian Hill worked for his father’s clothing store Hills of Kerrisdale. He learned the business from the ground up and while he attended college, he realized that there was a gap between the trendy clothing of young women and the stylish but older generation.

Aritzia was founded in 1984. The first location was in the Oakridge Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Aritzia went international in 2005 with locations in most major US cities including Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, New York, and others.

As of 2021, the company had 105 locations in the US alone.

The company maintains a large warehouse in Vancouver and occasionally offers sales directly from this location. In 2022, Aritzia gave away 200 shopping sprees from the warehouse.

In September 2022, the company partnered with fashion designer Emma Chamberlain on a new clothing collection that will be released later in the year.

Aritzia Clothing maintains a corporate office in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Lions Not Sheep Apparel Corporate Office

Sean Whalen founded clothing and accessories company Lions Not Sheep in 2016. Originally just operating part time, the company went into full swing in 2020.

The company specializes in clothing such as T-shirts, tank tops, water bottles, hats, flags, keychains, stickers, and more via an active online e-commerce store.

Whalen recently come under scrutiny when his company was fined by the FTC in August 2022 for removing “Made in China” or other country tags and replacing them with “Made in the USA” tags.

Founder and CEO Sean Whalen claims that this isn’t true and tries to explain what happened in this video.

In December 2021, the company announced that they were placing a new president and COO, Dan Caldwell, in its Utah office.

Lions Not Sheep maintains a corporate office in Orem, Utah.

Brandy Melville Corporate Office

Silvio Marson and his son Stephan founded Brandy Melville in Italy in the early 80s and opened their first US store in Los Angeles in 2009.

The company sells and designs all of its clothing in Italy. Brandy Melville is best known for its One Size Fits Most fashion, which cuts back on inventory, the cost of manufacturing, and is more environmentally friendly.

The name comes from a fictional love story about an American woman named Brandy, who falls in love with an Englishman named Melville while on vacation in Europe.

The brand is focused on very young women and teen aged girls who want to look trendy and “cool”.

The company currently has 97 locations around the world, with 36 locations in the US and has a very active eCommerce website.

While Brandy Melville doesn’t do much advertising aside from social media, it did gain a lot of unwanted attention after the CEO Stephan Marsan made it clear when opening locations in Canada that he did not want black or overweight women wearing their clothing.

Brandy Melville also received scathingly negative reviews on social media platforms in China, saying that while the clothing was cute, the entire discrimination against larger-sized people was “disgusting.”

Brandy Melville maintains a corporate office in the US in Santa Monica, California.

J.Jill Corporate Office

J. Jill offers clothing tailored for a mature woman who wants comfort and fashion.

The company was founded by Karl Lipsky in 1955. He named his company after his wife Jennifer and his daughter Jill.

Clothing was initially sold via a mail-order catalog, abandoned in 2018 for online sales.

The company went public on the NYSE in March 2017 under the ticker symbol JILL.

In May 2020, during the Covid pandemic, J.Jill donated $50,000 to First Responders First, through its J.Jill Compassion Fund, and launched a campaign for National Nurses Month, offering a shopping voucher for its newest collection to nurses, first responders, and healthcare workers.

J. Jill stock was down more than 50 percent in 2019 but turned itself around in 2022 when the stock took a big gain.

Many attribute this gain in stock to interim CEO Jim Scully.

J. Jill maintains a corporate office in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Blair Clothing Corporate Office

Blair Corporation was founded in 1910 by John Blair.

Mr. Blair originally took up an offer to sell raincoats. After several unsuccessful attempts at selling the coats, he was asked by an undertaker if he had any attractive black raincoats. He didn’t, but it gave him an idea. By taking advantage of the relatively new rubber vulcanization process to adhere an attractive black wool fabric to the outside of a rubber raincoat, with an inner lining of Scottish plaid.

He paid for 1200 raincoats and sold them all within days.

Today, Blair Corporation is one of America’s largest direct marketing mail order retailers, selling clothing and household goods. The company is still in business after more than 100 years.

Orchard Brands acquired Blair in 2007.

In 2015, Orchard Brands was acquired by Capmark Financial to be another business within the Bluestem Brands retail business.

Blair catalogs can still be ordered online. Amazon also offers Blair clothing, along with Walmart, and Redbubble.

Blair maintains a corporate office in Warren, Pennsylvania.