Designer clothing is clothing designed by a particular fashion designer or licensed by a person or brand. It is often luxury clothing proven to be high quality and haute couture for the general public, made by, or carrying the label of, a well-known designer. Licensing of designer names has been a common practice within the fashion industry since about the 1970s. Designer clothing comprises numerous types of apparel, including designer jeans that often cost several hundreds of dollars.
Designer clothing in a shop window in Beverly Hills
Staff working at the Armani Jeans store in the Hong Kong Central IFC Mall. 2012.
A shop named CONS Jeans in the Albanian city of Shkodra. 2008.
The interior of the JC Jeans and Clothes boutique in Stockholm, Sweden. 2011.
A brand is a name, term, design, symbol or any other feature that distinguishes one seller's good or service from those of other sellers. Brands are used in business, marketing, and advertising for recognition and, importantly, to create and store value as brand equity for the object identified, to the benefit of the brand's customers, its owners and shareholders. Brand names are sometimes distinguished from generic or store brands.
Ferrari was the world's most powerful brand in 2014 according to Brand Finance.
The Coca-Cola wordmark is a distinctive brand logo used to attract the attention of people attending a sporting event, or watching it on television.
In pre-literate society, the distinctive shape of amphorae provided potential customers with information about goods and quality. Pictured: Amphorae for wine and oil, Archaeological Museum of Dion.
Amphorae bearing a titulus pictus and potters' stamps, found at Monte Testaccio
