Vernato
Vernato is an international fashion brand based in Richmond, Virginia. Vernato is best known for its graphical t-shirts based around global cultures. Its target audience is fashionable young men and women that love and appreciate world cultures. The company was founded on February 2008 by Alban Selamaj, an Albanian from Tirana, Albania, and Anton Vitkovskiy, a Russian from Simferopol, Ukraine.
History
Vernato was founded with the purpose of providing a globalized generation of young men and women a sense of cultural identity as expressed through their own personalized fashion choices. As the first fashion company to BLEND pure culture within modern clothing styles, Vernato interprets the richness of world traditions through its powerful message of cultural meaning embedded in its creative designs.
Vernato believes that every culture's unique beauty can be captured through design. Vernato aims to revive the world's traditions, history, and art in a fashionable and meaningful way that can be experienced by all. The Vernato name symbolizes classicism, simplicity and intelligence while the Hoplite logo represents strength, human spirit and culture. The intricate unity of these elements allows Vernato to widen HORIZONS and embrace the magnificence of culture diversity in an ever-changing world. The Vernato customer appreciates all that the past, present and future have to offer and reflects his or her relentless cultural pride through distinctive wearable pieces of art.