Kangol is specialized in producing headwear and men’s hats. The brand’s history is closely related with hip hop culture, even if the company started manufacturing headgears for soldiers and workers back in 1938. The founder Jacques Spreiregen, emigrated from Poland to Paris after the II World War, molded the brand into a headwear giant by strongly focusing on bucket hats and wool hats made of Angora coat, aka the iconic Kangol Furgora. Read more…
The name Kangol includes the ‘k’ of knitting, the ‘ang’ from Angora and the last two letters of the word ‘wool’. This composed name speaks clearly about the brand’s background, strongly linked with industrial work; Kangol hats had to be first and foremost durable, warm and useful. Aesthetics come later: like happened with other fatigue brands, during the ‘80s Kangol started being worn by hip hop artists from the working-class, who slightly pushed the brand to get close to streetwear and street clothing. More generally, nowadays Kangol headwear offering consists mostly of vintage caps with bold patterns and heritage graphics, wool hats, fake fur bucket hats, baseball caps and winter beanies made of Angora.