Sergio Valente (clothing)

Sergio Valente is an American clothing brand best known for juniors' and women's designer jeans and stretch-denim fabrics. It is owned by the privately held Seattle Pacific Industries Inc., founded in 1981, which additionally owns the Reunion and Saltaire menswear brands and the Unionbay teen-clothing brand. While a number of notable individuals are named "Sergio Valente", the brand is not named after, nor was ever run by, a real person of that name.

Seattle Pacific Industries is based in Kent, Washington, near Seattle. Sergio Valente has fashion showrooms in New York City, and Los Angeles. The brand dates to 1975, and was relaunched by Seattle Pacific in the 1990s.

Its jeans are sold the United States, the UK and Japan.

Seattle Pacific's president in 2004 was Steve Ritchey. [ [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002116717_apparel12.html "The Seattle Times" (Dec. 13, 2004): "Final cut for textile quotas: Poor nations no longer guaranteed work", by Alwyn Scott] ]

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* [http://www.svjeans.com/ Sergio Valente] (official site)
* [http://www.seattletimescompany.com/nwretailnews/merchandising/merch0306.htm "The Seattle Times"/"NW Retail News" (June 2003): "Merchandising and Strategy Changes: A glance at retailers that are restrategizing"]
* [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/185249_retail07.html "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" (Aug. 7, 2004): "Retail Notebook: Saltaire targets 25-55 demographic". by Christine Frey]