Stone Island

For the island near St Petersburg, Russia, see Kamenny Ostrov. For the 2000 AD story, see Stone Island (2000AD).
Stone Island
Industry Textile
Founded 1982
Products Clothing
Footwear
Accessories
Revenue Retail
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Stone Island is an Italian Designer brand from Sportswear Company (SPW). The label was set as a secondary line or diffusion collection of his main C.P Company label. The brand specialized in surface treatment of fabrics and dyeing techniques.

Perhaps the most notable feature of a Stone Island garment is the compass patch that buttons onto the upper sleeve of the left arm. Originally the patches were green edged, badges from around the year 2000 onwards became black edged. There are also a run of rarer 'white badges' which were originally made on certain jackets to celebrate the millennium. The white badge is now apparent on jackets that use materials that Stone Island develops themselves in-house. Novel jacket designs include the "Liquid Reflective" jacket, that uses thousands of small shards of glass that reflect to light.

The make has been popular amongst football fan 'casuals' in England and throughout the rest of Europe. The brand can also be seen in many football hooliganism based films, such as Green Street Hooligans and The Football Factory.

One of stone island most recent change to their clothing is that they came together with Supreme New York to create jackets with goggles like CP company. This was done to show a wide selection of their clothing as they only make 1000 pieces of the coats.

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