Sergio Valente
Sergio Valente was an American clothing brand. Originally, the brand produced designer jeans for men, women and children in the 1970s and 1980s.[1] In the 1990s, it was relaunched and focused on juniors' and women's designer jeans and stretch-denim fabrics.[2] It is owned by the privately held Seattle Pacific Industries Inc. (based in Seattle and Kent, Washington), also the Reunion and Saltaire menswear brands and the Unionbay teen-clothing brand.[3][2] Sergio Valente has fashion showrooms in New York City and Los Angeles. Its jeans are sold in the United States, United Kingdom and Japan.
History[edit]
The brand was established by Englishtown Sportswear Ltd. in 1975 when designer jeans were in ascendance in the US.[1] Its supposed original designer, Sergio Valente, is fictitious and never existed.[1] Englishtown Sportswear Ltd. was a company in New York City, formed by William Hsu, Martin Heinfling, Brian Leung, Tony Lau, Eli Kaplan and Leo Zelkin. Kaplan was bought out around the early-to-mid 1980s, and Zelkin and Heinfling left the company by 1992, the latter having become a prominent Broadway producer. The remaining shareholders, Leung and Lau, merged Englishtown into Seattle Pacific Industries, which relaunched Sergio Valente sometime thereafter.[4][5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Jacobs, Alexandra (February 11, 2015). "Critic's Notebook: A New Generation of Designers Chooses Anonymity". The New York Times. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ a b Frey, Christine (August 7, 2004). "Retail Notebook: Saltaire targets 25-55 demographic". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved December 4, 2020 – via seattlepi.com.
- ^ "Merchandising and Strategy Changes: A glance at retailers that are restrategizing". The Seattle Times/NW Retail News. June 2003. Archived from the original on October 23, 2006. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ LaMarca, William R. (March 8, 2007), Seattle Pacific Industries v. Golden Valley Realty Associates and Zelkin (PDF), Supreme Court of the State of New York (Nassau County)
- ^ Holden, Stephen (September 21, 1986). "How the Curtain Came Down on the Dream of 'Rags'". The New York Times.
External links[edit]
- Sergio Valente website (archived)