Irving itself is younger than the herd it honors. In 1903 two promoters, Otis Brown and J.O. Schulze, platted a townsite on the prairie between Dallas and Fort Worth, along the rail line that ran between them, and named it for the author Washington Irving — the New Yorker who gave the world Rip Van Winkle and the Headless Horseman. The young town farmed corn, wheat, and cotton and shipped its harvest down the rails to the two cities on either side; it incorporated in 1914. The literary name was a flourish for a dusty prairie townsite, but it stuck, and Irving has carried an author's name ever since. From the start, Irving's whole position was its in-between place: close to everything, beholden to neither neighbor.
Today Irving is one of the most diverse cities in America — often said to hold the most varied ZIP code in the country — a global business hub in the heart of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. Its days run on canal walks and gallery openings, concerts at the Toyota Music Factory and miles of the Campion Trail, all in the shadow of nine bronze horses. It is a city that keeps reinventing itself, yet still points every visitor toward the same wild herd. Our Irving designs gather that into wearable form. Wear the history. The Mustangs of Las Colinas.
Why People Visit Irving
Irving offers art, water, and wild bronze horses in the middle of the Metroplex. Visitors come for the Mustangs, the canals, and the music, and stay for a central, easygoing base beside DFW with museums, sculpture plazas, and trails close at hand. It is both a cultural stop and a convenient home base, with year-round appeal in its parks, paths, and public spaces.
