German fashion

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Chapters: Clothing brands of Germany, Clothing companies of Germany, German fashion designers, Adidas, Puma AG, Karl Lagerfeld, Jil Sander AG, Hugo Boss, Sonja de Lennart, Fady Maalouf, Esprit Holdings, Claudia Hill, Königsallee, Eva Gronbach, Rudolph Moshammer, Etienne Aigner, Reusch, Egon von Fürstenberg, Willy Bogner, Jr., Thor Steinar, Wolfgang Joop, Escada, JOOP!, Torsten Amft, Ulla Popken, Tom Tailor, NRW Forum, Damir Doma, Marc O¿Polo, Closed GmbH, Philipp Plein, Willy Bogner, Sr., Tomas Maier, Barbara Becker, Gregor Clemens, Robert Geller, NewYorker, Boris Bidjan Saberi, Adolf Riedl, Iris von Arnim, Uli Herzner, AMD Academy of Fashion and Design, Van Laack. Excerpt: Adidas AG is a German sports apparel manufacturer and parent company of the Adidas Group, which consists of the Reebok sportswear company, golf company (including Ashworth), and Rockport. Besides sports footwear, the company also produces other products such as bags, shirts, watches, eyewear, and other sports- and clothing-related goods.The company is the largest sportswear manufacturer in Europe and the second-biggest sportswear manufacturer in the world, with American rival Nike being the biggest. Adidas was founded in 1948 by Adolf "Adi" Dassler, following the split of Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik between him and his older brother Rudolf. Rudolf later established Puma, which was the early rival of Adidas. Registered in 1949, Adidas is currently based in Herzogenaurach, Germany, along with Puma. The company's clothing and shoe designs typically feature three parallel bars, and the same motif is incorporated into Adidas's current official logo. The "Three Stripes" were bought from the Finnish sport company Karhu Sports in 1951. The company revenue for 2009 was listed at ¿10.38 billion and the 2008 figure at ¿10.80 billion. A pair of Adidas Samba football trainers.Adolf "Adi" Dassler started to produce his own sports shoes in his mother's wash kitchen in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria after his return from World War I. On 1 July 1924, his brother Rudolf "Rudi" Dassler joined the business, which became (Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory) and prospered. The pair started the venture in their mother's laundry, but, at the time, electricity supplies in the town were unreliable, and the brothers sometimes had to use pedal power from a stationary bicycle to run their equipment. By the 1936 Summer Olympics, Adi Dassler drove from Bavaria on one of the world's first motorways to the Olympic village with a suitcase full of spikes and persuaded U.S. sprinter Jesse Owens to use them, the first sponsorship for an African American. Following Owens's haul of four gold medals, his success cem