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No Anxiety's first collection intended to raise eyebrows

Wanna get people to pay attention? Try a shocking statement. It worked for Lady Gaga, and Los Angeles-based streetwear line No Anxiety is finding the audacious statement can open doors in fashion retail.

Behind the rain clouds that L.A.’s been drenched under these past few days is the silver lining of a Christmas weekend. But if you haven’t started on any of your X-Mas shopping yet, you’re probably dreading the last-minute scramble to avoid the mortification of any re-gifting disasters.

Some local brands and retailers hear your pain and are continuing to offer up discounts and sales from now until well past New Year’s.

Showrooms on the 5th floor of the California Market Center

We're still eating Halloween candy but the buzz around the Fashion District is that there will be sample sales galore just about every Friday until Christmas Eve.

Cerre will toast its one-year anniversary on May 13 by sharing some discount love. Using Italian hides, silk and cashmere and artisanal-quality craftsmanship, the clothing and accessories by Flavie and Clayton Webster is the classic-with-an-edge kind of stuff that looks fresh season after season. 

Connected International Showroom's sales crew in front of their new street level digs. Connected chief Steeve Bohbot is second from left.

After more than two years of doing business on the 12th floor of The New Mart, Steeve Bohbot took his Connected International Sales Showroom to the street. It is now housed at a storefront at 846 S. Los Angeles St.  It means Connected can be accessed directly from the street, and, yes, that is a bit uncommon for a showroom. 

More good news might be coming to the retail industry. After mostly positive retail sales were reported for December (The International Council of Shopping Centers reported U.S. chain-store sales increased 2.8 percent last month), the ICSC forecast decent sales in January, traditionally a month when many retailers focus on nothing more than getting rid of old inventory to make room for new Spring fashions. 

Online pop-up shop Cutdrop.com is hosting weekly sales featuring contemporary designers and will donate a portion of the profits to a charity of the brands' choice.

The sales kicked off Oct. 19 with up-and-coming L.A. brand Seneca Rising, which will be one of the designers on the runway at Gen Art Fresh Faces in Fashion at Rock Fashion Week Los Angeles on Oct. 29.  Some of the proceeds from Seneca Rising sales went to Fashion Targets Breast Cancer.