Gap refers to a successful worldwide chain of Clothing stores which sells varieties of basic casual wear, including shoes, watches, shirts, etc. It was opened by Donald and Doris F isher in 1969 in San Francisco in the United States. Over the years, Gap acquired and opened several clothing stores: (1) Banana Republic, a clothing store which became a profitable division of Gap; (2) GapShoes, GapKids, BabyGap, GapBody; (3) then Old Navy, which opened in 1994 and is owned by Gap that sold discount casuals for the whole family.
Beginning in 1987 Gap began to open the first of several hundred stores around the world, including France, and Hong Kong. Gap continued to be a success into the twenty-first century.
Among the Gap celebrity endorsers are celebrities and models, such as:
Rosanna Arquette _
Erykah Badu _
Selma Blair _
William S. Burroughs _
Kate Capshaw _
Jean-Claude Van Damme _
Julie Delpy _
Taye Diggs _
Missy Elliott _
Marianne Faithfull _
Will Ferrell _
Tina Fey _
Danny Glover _
Melanie Griffith _
Davis Guggenheim _
Marcia Gay Harden _
Dennis Hopper _
Natalie Imbruglia _
Scarlett Johansson _
Milla Jovovich _
Regina King _
Lenny Kravitz _
Ashton Kutcher _
Lucy Liu _
Lindsay Lohan _
Andie MacDowell _
William H. Macy _
John Mayer _
Brittany Murphy _
Sarah Jessica Parker _
Mekhi Phifer _
Laura Prepon _
Claudia Schiffer _
Liev Schreiber _
Sarah Silverman _
Kiefer Sutherland _
Twyla Tharp _
Liv Tyler _
Steven Tyler _
Gus Van Sant _
Michael Vartan _
Ken Watanabe _
Forest Whitaker _
Author's Note: My siblings and I had our first taste of Gap Shoes, Watches and T-Shirts from the balikbayan box sent to us to the Philippines by my sister living Texas in 1990's. I will always remember my first Gap casual shoes made of leather, but looks like a rubber shoes. My siblings and I wore of Gap shoes, T-shirts and watches with pride. We were lucky because Gap products during those times were a very expensive items of clothing and only the rich people in the Philippines can buy them.