Founders' Hall
Founders’ Hall
The oldest American houses are first, because they are the ones the editor does not want to forget. Age is the year the house was founded, not the year a holding company bought the name. France, Italy, Britain, Spain and Japan have their own rooms. The Japanese room is split: Ametora and City Boy are a way of reading clothes, not a contest of antiquity.
Oldest Americans
No American founding year on the desk has a source yet. Age is the year the house was founded, and nobody fills it from memory.
Country rooms
Ametora and City Boy
Japan is split. This lane is a Japanese reading of American and British clothes, and that reading is the point; it is sorted by name, not by age.
Centenarians
Every house at least 100 years old gets the brass C seal, once its year is sourced.