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United Colors of Benetton

United Colors of Benetton

In the 1980s, Benetton was a hip, fresh, and uniquely Italian fashion powerhouse that was defined as much past its socially witting, multicultural advertising as it was by its endlessly colorful knit sweaters. In 2015, America's last standing United Colors of Benetton location — its iconic flagship New York Urban center location — airtight its doors. In 2019, the make opened a pop-up shop in Santa Monica, California, for iv weeks between October and November, simply offered no inventory. After looking at the clothes, you were invited to order online.

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Camaraderie

The Esprit brand was built-in in 1968, emerged in the 1970s and by the 1980s was a cultural miracle known across the world. Past 1996, the iconic triple-bar "East" was familiar in 44 countries and Esprit ranked No. 28 on a list of the 100 most recognizable brands in the Usa. By 2011, nonetheless, tastes had changed and Esprit reported a 98 percentage drop in profits. The side by side year, the brand closed all 93 of its Northward American stores. Currently, customers from a host of countries ranging from the U.K. to Macau can buy at the make's website — simply not the United States. You tin can get Camaraderie product, however, on the ASOS site.

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Abercrombie and Fitch

Genetically gifted and partially clothed young men greeting customers in stores. Outlets that felt more similar nightclubs than article of clothing shops. An iconic itemize that could brand the careers of aspiring models. This is what characterized Abercrombie and Fitch during its reign of fashion supremacy. The company built its empire on tight-fitting, loftier-quality preppy chic clothing, but the fickle whims of an ever-changing manufacture inverse all that. A&F airtight over 100 stores in recent years, including flagship stores in New York, Milan, and Fukuoka, Japan. Even so, don't count out the brand entirely — A&F execs say this is part of a movement toward smaller storefronts and a bigger digital presence.

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Cantankerous Colours

With megastars like Will Smith, Tupac Shakur, TLC, and Mark Wahlberg donning its unmistakeable threads, Cross Colours ruled the "urban wear" boom years of 1990-93. The brand's unique manner was backed by a potent cultural message. Billed every bit "habiliment without prejudice" for an inclusive and ethnically diverse customer base, Cantankerous Colours fell victim to changing mode sense in the mid-'90s — and a wave of counterfeiting. If you're feeling nostalgic, though, the brand'due south website has '90s reissues as part of its current collection.

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Coogi

In the 1980s, then-beloved television and comedy superstar Nib Cosby was and so synonymous with wacky-patterned Coogi wool knits that they were affectionately dubbed "Cosby sweaters." ten years after in the mid-'90s, Heathcliff Huxtable's cultural polar opposite, rap superstar Christopher Wallace — a.chiliad.a. Biggie Smalls — endorsed the brand both in his style and in his lyrics. Fast-frontwards to today and Bill Cosby is a reviled former resident of a Pennsylvania land prison house, it'southward been more than 20 years since the Notorious B.I.G. was murdered in a cantankerous-coast rap beef, and the loud colors of Coogi are the stuff of ugly sweater contests. If you even so want one, though, they're available on the Coogi site for around $600.

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Gloria Vanderbilt Jeans

A socialite and heiress from ane of America'south most powerful families, Gloria Vanderbilt launched a fashion empire. Thanks to her, women across the world were wearing jeans with her name and the trademark Gloria Vanderbilt swan emblazoned across their hips in the 1970s and '80s. As the designer jeans craze subsided, however, then did sales. Today, the in one case-glamorous Gloria Vanderbilt brand tin can be constitute at Kohl's, JCPenny, and Macy's, where you can get most items for less than $50 and many for less than $30. Vanderbilt died in 2019 of stomach cancer, making her public persona (often every bit the mom of CNN anchor Anderson Cooper) and branding more than decidedly past-tense.

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Versus Versace

In 1989, way legend Gianni Versace gave his kid sis, Donatella Versace, a gift: the Versace make'southward outset spin-off company, Versus Versace. The line, which debuted in Milan, launched Donatella's career and fabricated a major impact on how the in-crowd dressed and the accessories that they wore. The 2000s, notwithstanding, saw the make's star power fade every bit a serial of defections and takeovers battered the Versus prototype. Afterward closing in 2005, Donatella resurrected the brand in 2009 with an emphasis in watches, leather goods, fragrances, and limited set-to-wear article of clothing.

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Swatch

Wacky bands. Zany faces. That piffling rubber band that was supposed to protect the glass from impact harm. Swatch, which was the "it" picket for a brief time in the 1980s, was launched by legendary Swiss watchmakers whose market share was being gobbled up past inexpensive Asian imports. Artistic collaboration with a who's-who list of the era's biggest stars made Swatch the decade'south hippest lookout man. Today, however, Swatch is a relic from a bygone era — although you can nonetheless purchase one if yous want.

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Bongo Jeans

Bongo cashed in on the '90s denim craze in a big way, thanks, in large part, to a string of memorable — but now horribly dated — ads featuring emerging star Liv Tyler. Today, however, the luster has worn off, and the merely place yous'll find a pair of Bongos is in the disbelieve department of doomed yesteryear retailers similar Sears and Kmart.

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L.East.I. Denim

Y'all can still score a pair of (pre-owned) 50.Due east.I. jeans at Walmart for less than $xx. A bizarre link to L.East.I.'s former website reminds u.s.a. that the acronym stands for "Life, Energy, Intelligence," and alludes to L.E.I.'s heydey as a must-accept brand of jeans for kids across the state. In 2002, the dream died when Jones Clothes bought the L.E.I. brand for $310 one thousand thousand.

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Bebe

Bebe

In the early aughts, Bebe was a fashion standout for its chichi women's clothing and lowercase logo T-shirts. While you won't detect a Bebe shop at the mall these days (the brand started closing all its retail locations in 2017), you can find the brand on its website. In a decidedly non-mode-frontward move, the company has recently announced the purchase of several rent-to-own franchises.

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