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Ports International commonly known as Ports, is fashion house
Fashion House
Fashion House is an American telenovela that aired at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT Monday through Saturday on MyNetworkTV stations. The series premiered on September 5, 2006 and concluded on December 5, 2006...

 founded in 1961 by the late Luke Tanabe, specializing in luxury
Luxury good
Luxury goods are products and services that are not considered essential and associated with affluence.The concept of luxury has been present in various forms since the beginning of civilization. Its role was just as important in ancient western and eastern empires as it is in modern societies...

 ready-to-wear
Ready-to-wear
Ready-to-wear or prêt-à-porter is the term for factory-made clothing, sold in finished condition, in standardized sizes, as distinct from made to measure or bespoke clothing tailored to a particular person's frame. Off-the-peg is sometimes used for items which are not clothing.Ready-to-wear has...

 and accessories for the modern global woman. Today, his dream carries on with Creative Director Fiona Cibani vision of Global soul, Urban spirit.

Ports Milestones

1970 : The first steps…PORTS open a flagship store in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

; followed by stores in Copley Place
Copley Place
Copley Place is an enclosed shopping mall, constructed in 1983, located in the Back Bay section of Boston, Massachusetts. It is owned by Simon Property Group, which acquired it in the 2002 breakup of the then-Dutch owned Urban Shopping Centers, Inc...

, Boston
Boston
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 and Stanford Shopping Center
Stanford Shopping Center
Stanford Shopping Center is an upscale open air shopping mall located on El Camino Real at Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto, California. It is on the campus of Stanford University although the university only owns the land and not the actual buildings or stores...

 in Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. The city shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. It is...

.

1978 : PORTS opened flag ship in London
London
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 – 78 Bond Street
Bond Street
Bond Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London that runs north-south through Mayfair between Oxford Street and Piccadilly. It has been a fashionable shopping street since the 18th century and is currently the home of many high price fashion shops...

.

1979 : Boutique opening in Rose Crescent, Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...

 & Bath – U.K.

1980 : Christine and Miki Tanabe are appointed as Designers for the fashion house.

1988 : Dean and Dan Caten are appointed Co-Designers of PORTS.

1992 : Tia and Fiona Cibani are appointed as Creative Directors and Chief Designers of the Fashion house.

2001 : Fashion show
Fashion show
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 and PORTS 40th anniversary celebration of at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is a major museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1860, making it Canada's oldest art institution, it moved to its current location in 1912 thanks to a large donation from businessman James Ross....

 (Musée des beaux-Arts de Montreal).

2006 : PORTS 1961 collection featured in the box office hit movie The Devil Wears Prada
The Devil Wears Prada (film)
The Devil Wears Prada is a 2006 comedy-drama film, a loose screen adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel of the same name. It stars Anne Hathaway as Andrea Sachs, a recent college graduate who goes to New York City and gets a job as a co-assistant to powerful and demanding fashion magazine...

.

2007 : PORTS 1961 “wood clutch” showcased at the New York Museum of Modern Art and Launch of the Jet Set Kit.

2008 : PORTS 1961 collection featured in the box office hit movie Sex in the City.

2009 : PORTS included in the prestigious Savigny Partners LLP luxury brand index along with LVMH, PPR, Hermès, Richemont, Swatch Group, Luxottica, Coach, Ralph Laren, Tiffany & Co., Burberry, Bulgari, Tod's Group and Safilo by the U.K. Investment Bankers. - PORTS featured in the French Luxury Unveiled TV series taking viewers inside the magic their brand. PORTS is spotlighted along with Chanel, Cartier, Dunhill, Swarovski, Ermenegildo Zegna, and Tiffany & Co..
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