Stone Island is an Italian luxury fashion house specialised in men's apparel, outerwear, and accessories headquartered in Ravarino, Emilia-Romagna. Its core branding includes a nautical star and compass, both of which is printed or overlaid atop a button-on cloth badge with green, yellow, and black detailing.

Feb 3, 2025 · Stone Island is featured in films such as Green Street and Football Factory, where stereotypical London football hooligans are depicted wearing the compass rose. The characters in these films focus their attention on designer fashion …

Feb 23, 2024 · Founded in Ravarino in 1982, Stone Island developed a cult-like following among British football supporters who spotted its clothes on rival fans when their teams were playing against Italian...

Oct 12, 2021 · Throughout its history, Stone Island has served as a signifier for many different things: a practice of material experimentation, a subculture of diehard football supporters and a high-end luxury Italian fashion label.

Aug 24, 2024 · This trend, embracing anonymity and high-end fashion, has been depicted in films such as Green Street and The Football Factory, which both helped make Stone Island more mainstream.

Dec 20, 2024 · Stone Island’s journey from niche Italian label to global cultural icon has left a lasting imprint on football fashion. Its adoption by British fans in the 1980s marked a turning point, demonstrating how sport could influence broader style trends.

Dec 20, 2024 · At the heart of this evolution is Stone Island, a brand that began far from the floodlights of football stadiums yet has become one of its most recognisable symbols. In 1982, Italian designer Massimo Osti founded Stone Island with a simple goal: to experiment with fabrics in ways no one else dared.

Aug 11, 2017 · It’s been heavily associated with football casual culture, but what do any other subcultures identify with the brand? One of the first real subcultures to take the brand to heart was the Paninaro movement. The Paninaro were a group of Milanese middle- and upper-class youths known for riding mopeds around the centre of Milan from café to café.

Oct 25, 2016 · Founded in 1982 by Italian designer Massimo Osti, Stone Island first arrived on British shores via the casuals – football fans (or hooligans, as the press often portrayed them) who discovered the label when they were in Italy for away games.

Nov 13, 2024 · In England, there is no brand more closely related with the beautiful game than Stone Island. Almost since their inception in the early '80s, the Modena-based fabric innovators have supplied the uniform for football fans up and down the country.