Kenneth Cole Cufflinks

Before selecting cufflinks to wear, first you need to have the proper type of shirt. What type is that? A dress shirt with French cuffs works best with cufflinks.

Basically a shirt can have two types of cuffs. The standard cuff has a button hole and a button or sometimes will have two button holes and two buttons. These shirts are not made for using cufflinks. A French cuff has two holes but no buttons and is made to be kept together with cufflinks.

Kenneth Cole is an American fashion designer who not only designs great looking cufflinks but shoes for both men and women along with clothing and accessories for both genders.

He studied law before starting his own shoe business in 1982. That wasn't too far of a stretch since his father owned a shoe manufacturing business. His creativity in getting his business noticed with very little money to promote it is legendary. Lacking the funds to rent a hotel room for Market Week, he discovered that he could park a trailer in a parking lot if he had a production company. Cole renamed his company to Kenneth Cole Productions and filmed the debut of his shoe company during the fashion event. It is reported that he sold something like 40,000 pairs of shoes while he documented his beginnings on film. Pretty incredible and innovative, I think.

Now, Cole sells under three names: Kenneth Cole Reaction, Kenneth Cole New York, and Unlisted. Kenneth Cole is known in the fashion industry as being socially conscious by promoting his products with advertising that also brings awareness to causes that he feels passionate about. He is a champion for the homeless and for AIDS awareness and research.