Morrissey Clothing - Mens & Womens Fashion

Peter Morrissey - Mens & Womens Clothing & Fashion Accessories

Peter Morrissey’s self-titled fashion label ‘Morrissey’ was launched in 1997. However, this was not the first fashion label for Peter Morrissey. Back in 1983, ‘Morrissey Edmiston’, a joint venture between fashion gurus Leona Edmiston and Peter Morrissey dominated the market for some fourteen years before finally being dissolved.

Morrissey joined the Oroton Group in 2000 which is responsible for various fashion labels within Australia including Oroton and Ralph Lauren. Originally, Morrissey began his self-titled label by creating clothing for men and women including suits, Italian cotton business shirts, and dresses. Now, Morrissey is not only creating fashion clothing items, but also various accessories including Morrissey sunglasses, cufflinks, jewellery, wallets, belts and other leather accessories.

Morrissey was again on-sold in November 2006 to the Webster Holding Pty Ltd, which also owns Marcs, Jigsaw, and David Lawrence.

The fashion label Morrissey is also very well known for dressing the workers Qantas Airlines after an agreement in 2003 saw the fashion icon supplying the uniforms for the leading Australian Airline. In a recent interview with the iconic fashion designer, Peter noted that his inspiration comes from people and life in general. Peter also noted that he had a passion for mentoring individuals with business decisions and introducing young designers to important buyers.

Although the Morrissey clothing label features casual clothing for both men and women, Morrissey clothing is definitely most recognized for the clean cut clothing pieces. For example, the typical slim-fit Italian cotton French cufflink business shirt with a set of Morrissey cufflinks including with the purchase, is almost a staple item in every successful business mans wardrobe. We must not forgot that Peter Morrissey has been in the fashion industry across three decades and thus has ample of experience to offer into the Australian fashion industry.

The latest from Peter Morrissey is a direct reflection of the global financil crisis. The Morrissey label is on the brink of extinction meaning Peter is diversifying his repitoire to by currently (2009) working with Big W to release an affordable underwear collection.

“I’ll put my name on whatever is appropriate at the appropriate time,” Morrissey said. “It would be irresponsible to create [an expensive] collection when people can’t pay their mortgage. I haven’t become mass market, I’ve become humane.”

Thats certainly one way to put it. We wish Peter the best of luck with his latest venture. I’m sure Peter Morrissey underwear will do just fine.