Kangol

KANGOL SPORT is a line established in 1998 by KANGOL, which had developed primarily around headwear, to expand into sports casualwear. It offers products for men, women, and children, catering to a wide range of everyday settings, from town and daily casual wear to sports, leisure, and travel. While KANGOL FIELD focuses on the outdoors, KANGOLF specializes in golf, and KANGOL TRI-FORCE presents a fusion of streetwear and sports, SPORT is not limited to a specific use and serves as the broadest-reaching sports casualwear foundation within the brand family.

KANGOL FIELD was derived from KANGOL’s domestic master license rollout and was a line responsible for functional casualwear based on outdoor sports. While KANGOL itself focused primarily on hats, KANGOL FIELD proposed products and styles oriented toward outdoor activities and natural environments, expanding into apparel from a different direction than KANGOL JEANS, which was centered on denim. Its outdoor focus was more explicit than that of KANGOL SPORT, which catered to a broad range of everyday settings, and it was also distinct from KANGOLF, which was dedicated to golf. Its rollout as a brand master began in 2005, and it is now classified as a past Japan-oriented spin-off line.

KANGOL JEANS is a Japan-focused line derived from KANGOL’s domestic master license business, specializing in casual wear centered on denim. While KANGOL itself is built around hats, this line expanded its everyday-wear offerings around jeans and denim casualwear. Unlike KANGOL SPORT, which addressed a broad range of everyday settings, and KANGOL FIELD, which focused on outdoor functionality, it was positioned with a focus on denim garments in both material and product type. Its rollout as a brand master began in 2005, and it is now categorized as a past Japan-focused derivative line that does not appear in the current list of major brands.

KANGOLF is a dedicated collection that extends KANGOL’s headwear and street-derived brand assets into golf. In addition to headwear such as caps, bucket hats, trucker hats, and visors, it offers ball markers and apparel, with a product range designed for use both on the course and in everyday life. While KANGOL SPORT serves everyday needs, KANGOL FIELD focuses on outdoor casualwear, and TRI-FORCE emphasizes streetwear and sports-oriented design, KANGOLF focuses specifically on golf and fairway culture, specializing the brand’s sports offering.

KANGOL REWARD is a Japan-exclusive concept lifestyle brand derived from KANGOL, focusing primarily on one-mile wear. Centered on clothing positioned between outdoor wear and loungewear, it offers items for a range of everyday situations and is also characterized by cultural mixing through collaborations with a wide range of figures, including models, actors, entertainers, artists, musicians, and video creators. While KANGOL itself centers on headwear and KANGOL ORIGINAL emphasizes product development, REWARD is a lifestyle-oriented line focused on relaxed everyday clothing and collaboration projects.

KANGOL KIDS is a kids' line that adapts KANGOL's British brand heritage and street elements for children. SJ Group, which operates its business in Korea, launched the line in 2018, with a dedicated product range centered on children aged around 3 to 10, including outerwear, tops, bottoms, dresses, bags, hats, and accessories. It differs from adult KANGOL in its target age group, sizing, and product development scope. Rather than offering sports casualwear for all ages like KANGOL SPORT, it is a highly independent line within the brand family focused on children and families.

KANGOL TRI-FORCE is a concept brand from KANGOL centered on a clear mix of streetwear and sports. While KANGOL SPORT provides a foundation in sports casualwear for a wide range of everyday settings, TRI-FORCE emphasizes the combination of street culture and sports elements more strongly in each collection, presenting the brand’s connection with youth culture from a different angle. Unlike KANGOLF, which specializes in golf, and KANGOL FIELD, which focuses on outdoor functionality, it is not a line dedicated to a specific sport, but a highly independent concept line that expresses KANGOL’s cultural character through a sports mix.

Jacques Spreiregen is a collection line named after KANGOL’s founder, launched on March 8, 2024. Starting from KANGOL’s accumulated heritage of classic and modern styles, it brings together multiple creators and pursues avant-garde collections and fashion experimentation distinct from regular KANGOL products. While KANGOL ORIGINAL is responsible for Japan-exclusive apparel development and serves as a regional project, this line bears the founder’s name to make the brand’s origins explicit, with a stronger focus on collections and experimentation.

KANGOL ORIGINAL is a limited original line that develops products for the Japanese market, building on KANGOL’s history and recognition in headwear. While global KANGOL focuses primarily on hats, this line independently develops apparel and related items for Japan, presenting Japan-made KANGOL standards and collaborations with artists and brands. Rather than emphasizing function for specific uses, as KANGOL SPORT and KANGOL FIELD do, it serves to present KANGOL’s apparel range through a distinctively Japanese approach rooted in local planning and limited availability.