Kangol Hats

Today, Kangol Hats produces a wide range of headwear products that crosses generations and cultures. It's not just hip hop and it's not just heritage. Kangol is not just a fashion brand. Kangol Hats is a cultural fashion fusion, taking the very best of British heritage and retro hip hip and mixing it with future fashion. Kangol Caps seeks to satisfy a new generation of consumers without alienating the people who put it where it is today. This is demonstrated in the mutual respect that is exchanged between Kangol Hats and the talented, influential individuals that the brand collaborates with. In the past decade the brand has worked Katherine Hamnett, Bella Freud, YMC, 6876, Hamish Morrow, Marcus Lupfer, Philip Treacy,

Apish Angel, Antoni and Alison, Pure Evil, D*Face, INSA, Comme des Garcons, Evil Monito, Married to the Mob and Catherine Malandrino. Marketing them as a must-have post-war fashion item, Jacques becomes increasingly involved in the production and distribution of berets over the next 20 years. In 1938, Jacques creates the name KANGOL to distinguish himself and the Kangol beret from the competition. The most widely believed theory is that the founder combined the K from knitting, the ANG from angora, and the OL from wool. Whatever the true origins the name was an inspired invention. Officially born in Cleator, Cumbria in the U.K.,

Kangol Hats gained notoriety as a brand for providing berets to the British army in WWII, Synonymous with the fact that Kangol had an identifiable kangaroo logo when sales reached a record high, was the fact that a famous young rapper named James Todd Smith, better know as LL Cool J, wore a Kangol Bermuda Casual on the cover of his sophomore album. He stayed rocking Kangol Hats in his videos and public appearances throughout his overwhelmingly successful music career, making it an integral part of Hip-Hop history. In the years to come Kangol would cover the heads of such hip hop greats as Slick Rick, Erik B and Rakim, Grand Master Flasand more recently Samuel L Jackson's Hat of choice