Andrew Asch

Andrew Asch is retail editor for California Apparel News. He focuses on reporting on retail, fashion trade shows and new designers for the newspaper. Andrew has been reporting for Apparel News since 2003. He has also written for the Los Angeles Times, Investor's Business Daily and RollingStone.com


Posted: August 31, 2010
by Andrew Asch

Class Party Calling

Class Trade Show founder Jason Bates

Business and a lot of partying once was the credo of many fashion trade shows.

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Posted: August 27, 2010
by Andrew Asch

Nordstrom, Robert Graham Open West of 405 Fwy

Nordstrom Glitz from the retailer's Newport Beach store

Retailing west of the 405 Freeway just got a lot more fabulous.
 
Nordstrom opened its first full-line store west of the 405 Freeway on Aug. 27 when it debuted its location at the Santa Monica Place shopping center. The center opened Aug. 6 and offers stores such as Bloomingdale’s, Kitson and Barney’s Co-op.
 

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Posted: August 27, 2010
by Andrew Asch

Need Gold? Call A Los Angeles Designer

STAY GOLD: Steve Valentine, pictured left, and dance coach Robert Tristan take the Gold in Gay Games' Latin Dancing

Los Angeles design can make you a winner, just ask Steve Valentine and the guys of the L.A. Eclipse soccer team.
 

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Posted: August 20, 2010
by Andrew Asch

Shop at the End of One Woman's Eat Pray Love Story

Laura Abeyta, second from right, celebrates with band Downtown Train in front of new store Vanity Room

When the economy got really tough in 2009, entrepreneur Laura Abeyta closed her boutique (H)armonie on Los Angeles’ Abbott Kinney Boulevard.

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Posted: August 13, 2010
by Andrew Asch

James Perse's New Hollywood Shop

James Perse's Hollywood store debuted the weekend of Aug. 14.

The gritty corner of North Highland Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles’ Hollywood section is just beginning to revitalize. However, high-quality basics and ready-to-wear label James Perse opened an 8,000-square-foot compound at 1128 N. Highland Ave. on the weekend of Aug. 14.
 

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Posted: August 06, 2010
by Andrew Asch

Fashion and Graffiti Make Nice...Obvious Not Being So Obvious

Luxury Loves Company's graffiti tote

Once a symbol of urban blight, graffiti is increasingly considered high fashion by some luxury designers.
 
The celebrated New York label Proenza Schouler recently debuted its graffiti-print jeans, which are part of its Fall 2010 collection. The graffiti jeans are sold at upper-crust retailers such as Bergdorf Goodman.
 

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Posted: August 03, 2010
by Andrew Asch

Bloomingdale's Fantastic

Yep, this is a dressing room

Bloomingdale’s promised it would create something completely different for its new store at Santa Monica Place retail center.
 
When the store opens Aug. 6 a few blocks away from the beach, the Santa Monica, Calif., Bloomie's will offer a feast for the eyes. I went on a tour of this Bloomie's Tuesday morning, and I saw wild design features.

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Posted: by Genevieve
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Flying Mannequins
You have given the first decade of the century something unusual to experience and enjoy. Congratulations on your continued efforts to keep us interested, not only on what you will do next, but in the desire to visit your store and be part of this excitement. Apparel is my main interest and you feed it in ways that without blogging, in the past would have been unimaginable. Thanks Bloomie

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Posted: July 29, 2010
by Andrew Asch

LASC Suits Up

LASC designed the uniform for the Eclipse soccer team

What World Cup? West Hollywood boutique LASC suited up for the Gay Games VIII, which will be held in Cologne, Germany, in August.
 

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Posted: July 23, 2010
by Andrew Asch

Hard Times Hit Melrose Heights Retail District

Sign at Crooks & Castles' former Melrose Heights store

In 2008, the Melrose Heights section of Melrose Avenue seemed to be ready to take its place as one of top retail strips in Los Angeles. But the street’s fortunes changed drastically after the Wall Street meltdown of 2008.
 

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Posted: July 19, 2010
by Andrew Asch

Banana Republic's New Look

The new look of South Coast Plaza's Banana Republic's women's shop

Banana Republic must be telling its customers to focus, focus, focus with a new look for its women's shop. It was unveiled last week at the South Coast Plaza retail center in Costa Mesa, Calif.

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