RESOURCE GUIDE

Fashion District Resources

Asher Fabric Concepts

  • 2301 E. Seventh St., #F107
  • Los Angeles, CA 90023
  • (323) 268-1218
  • Fax: (323) 268-2737
  • www.asherconcepts.com
  • sales@asherconcepts.com
  • Products and Services: Asher Fabric Concepts stands alone as the innovative trend-driven domestic textile supplier to the contemporary apparel market. Producing high end, luxurious fabrics in the USA and offering a fully searchable online inventory with easy swatch ordering and sampling, they are a designer's dream. With an extensive library and constant new line development in basic PFD, Novelties, Stripes, and Prints, they are always on trend. By supporting customized product development they facilitate the manufacturer's ability to achieve a unique look and brand identity. Set up to produce large and small orders with equal consideration and care, they are your trusted partner in building and growing your business from the ground up.

Buhler Quality Yarns Corp.

  • 1881 Athens Highway
  • Jefferson, GA 30549
  • (706) 367-9834
  • www.buhleryarns.com
  • sales@buhleryarns.com
  • Contact: David Sasso
  • Products and Services: Buhler Quality Yarns Corp. – Get more than just yarn. In addition to the industry's best yarn, we provide unsurpassed technical support, transparency, and 20+ years of supply chain partnerships. Our US-based facilities allow for quicker delivery and agile responsiveness to market trends. Known throughout the industry for consistency, our products are certified safe by Oeko-Tex Standard 100, which include Supima Cotton, MicroModal® Edelweiss, Micro TENCEL®, Supima Outlast, and various blends.

California Label Products

  • 13255 S. Broadway
  • Los Angeles, CA 90061
  • (310) 523-5800
  • Fax: (310) 523-5858
  • Contact: Tasha
  • www.californialabel.com
  • info@californialabel.com
  • Products and Services: California Label Products has been servicing the apparel industry for 20 years. With our full-service in-house Art Department, we can create your branding identity from design to delivery. Our product list consists of woven labels, printed labels, care labels, size tabs, custom hangtags, integrated hangtags, and novelty items, as well as buttons and snaps. We have price tickets, self-adhesive labels, thermal transfer labels, printers, and ribbons. Our service bureau for care labels, price tickets, and bar-coding can give you product in 48 to 72 hours. We are always concerned about quality, service, price, and creativity. Think of California Label Products for all your label needs in 2013! Call us for a quote or e-mail us.

California Market Center

  • 110 E. Ninth St.
  • Los Angeles, CA 90079
  • (213) 630-3600
  • www.californiamarketcenter.com
  • Services: Five seasons a year, buyers from around the globe flock to the California Market Center (CMC) for Los Angeles Fashion Market, the West Coast's premier destination for thousands of apparel, gift and lifestyle collections displayed in hundreds of the CMC's showrooms and featured trade shows. Our array of resources includes SELECT Contemporary Tradeshow, TRANSIT LA Shoe Show, LA Kids Market, and the Gift, Home & Design showcase. L.A. Fashion Market at the CMC now offers visiting retailers and brands more show options then ever to exhibit in and shop from.

Cooper Design Space

  • 860 S. Los Angeles St.
  • Los Angeles, CA 90014
  • (213) 627-3754
  • info@cooperdesignspace.com
  • www.cooperdesignspace.com
  • Services: The Cooper Design Space, at the corner of Ninth and Los Angeles streets in the heart of L.A.'s Fashion District, hosts a space that embraces cross-pollination among L.A. lifestyle businesses in fashion, media arts, and publishing. The building is 11 stories tall and, having been built in 1927, represents the city's history of creative commerce. It's a space that encourages fluidity across functions by offering an event venue, offices, and showrooms in a single location.

Dallas Market Center

  • 2100 Stemmons Freeway
  • Dallas, TX 75207
  • (214) 655-6100 or (214) 744-7444
  • www.dallasmarketcenter.com
  • Services: Dallas Apparel & Accessories Markets are held five times each year at Dallas Market Center. As the economy warms up, Dallas continues to welcome thousands of buyers to each market, 70 percent of whom don't shop other apparel marketplaces. Likewise, the Dallas Market Center has recently added additional key rep groups/lines from California to further establish itself as a destination for the leading edge of fashion. For the latest news and upcoming market dates, visit our website.

Designer Fabric Warehouse

  • 5015 District Blvd.
  • Los Angeles, CA 90058
  • (323) 277-2777
  • info@dfwla.com
  • Products and Services: Warehouse-style 60,000-square-foot store with thousands of styles and millions of yards of fashion and decorator fabrics in stock including leather, silk, denim, technical, swim, stretch, prints, knits, linen, cotton, high-end couture, tapestry, chenille, and more. A wholesale and to-the-trade source with great prices and low minimums for garment manufacturers, fashion designers, decorative designers, event planners, set decorators, and students. Easy to shop with friendly attentive staff and located minutes outside of downtown LA. Just look for the big red door. Open Monday to Friday 9 a.m.–5 p.m. No appointment necessary.

Gerber Technology

  • 24 Industrial Park Road West
  • Tolland, CT 06084
  • (800) 826-3243
  • (860) 871-8082 (outside USA)
  • www.gerbertechnology.com
  • Contact: Jill Powers
  • jill.powers@gerbertechnology.com
  • (760) 473-4593
  • Products and Services: Gerber Technology offers a complete suite of computer-aided design and manufacturing systems for the apparel and sewn-goods industries. These include the industry-leading AccuMark® pattern design, grading, and marker-making software, Vstitcher™ 3D pattern draping software, automated nesting, and textile spreading systems, as well as single- and multi-ply GERBERcutters. Gerber also offers YuniquePLM™ product lifecycle management software, which helps retailers, brand owners, and manufacturers manage all of the details associated with their products from concept to consumer and enables them to communicate and collaborate more effectively with their global partners. Gerber Technology supports 25,000 customers, including more than 100 Fortune 500 companies, in 130 countries around the world

Keylin Inc.

  • 312 E. Jefferson Blvd.
  • Los Angeles, CA 90011
  • (323) 232-6700
  • Fax: (323) 232-6858
  • Support@KeylinInc.com
  • www.KeylinInc.com
  • Products and Services: Keylin, Inc. is a company organized to design, manufacture, and market fasteners for the aviation, construction, garment, leather, medical, and oceanic industries. This Los Angeles–based company serves as a distribution center that provides immediate delivery of goods to customers. Keylin offers a vast variety of hardware to the global market. The company specializes in custom-built, made-to-order product lines that satisfy the customers' needs. Keylin is proud to become the Mid- and Western Regional Distributor of the world's leading premium fashion zipper manufacturer, Riri Zippers of Switzerland. To date, Keylin has a stock collection of #4, #6, and #8 metal zippers available in 5-metal teeth colors and 7 tape colors. This provides a vast array of 105 different combinations of items to satisfy the customer's creative demand. To enhance Keylin's operation as Riri's Regional Distribution Center, Keylin has an on-site Riri machine from Switzerland to allow on-site custom jobs enabling zipper customization that closely matches the original factory specification. Keylin may also accept orders for production from Riri's Swiss plant that can be shipped anywhere in the world where customers may desire. The success of Keylin, Inc. as a leader in its line of trade is indicative of the effectiveness of the company's philosophy and goal.

The New Mart

  • 127 E. Ninth St.
  • Los Angeles, CA 90015
  • (213) 627-0671
  • Fax: (213) 627-1187
  • www.newmart.net
  • Services: In the heart of Los Angeles' Fashion District is the landmark New Mart Building. The showrooms of The New Mart represent the most exclusive and coveted contemporary lines from an international array of designers and manufacturers. The New Mart is unique in both architecture and style. The intimate setting creates a user-friendly experience for visitors. Each of its glass-fronted, uniquely designed showrooms provides a buying adventure that cannot be experienced at any other showroom destination. The New Mart is open year-round to the wholesale trade only and has 95 showrooms featuring hundreds of contemporary women's and men's apparel and accessory resources.

Première Vision

  • www.premierevision.com
  • Services: The next edition of Première Vision, the World's Premier Fabric Show, will be held Sept. 17–19 at Parc d'Expositions de Paris-Nord Villepinte. Three days to discover the collections of more than 700 weavers from all over the world, innovations, trends, and main directions for Autumn/Winter 2014–15. A hub for business and inspiration. Next Première Vision shows will take place July 10–11 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and July 22–23 in New York.

Progressive Label

  • 2545 Yates Ave.
  • Commerce, CA 90040
  • (323) 415-9770
  • Fax: (323) 415-9771
  • Info@progressivelabel.com
  • www.progressivelabel.com
  • Products and Services: Progressive Label is dedicated to helping companies develop and showcase their brand identity. From logo labels and hangtags to care/content labels and price tickets, we will develop, produce, and distribute your trim items worldwide. We specialize in producing custom products that will meet your design and merchandising needs. Our mission is to deliver high-quality products at competitive prices, wherever they are needed for production. We understand the rush nature of this industry and strive to meet the tight deadlines facing our customers. Another important part of our business is FLASHTRAK, our online ordering system for price tickets. It's a great tool for placing and tracking price ticket orders and will soon be expanded to include custom products and carelabels.

Simparel

  • 53 W. 36th St.
  • 11th Floor
  • New York, NY 10018
  • (212) 279-5800
  • www.simparel.com
  • info@simparel.com
  • Products and Services: Designed specifically for the apparel, footwear, home furnishings, and accessories industries, Simparel enables manufacturers to reach their full potential by accelerating performance across the entire company, as well as their global supply chain. The Simparel Unified Global ERP Solution provides global enterprise visibility and collaboration throughout the PLM, supply chain management, order-to-cash, EDI, logistics, and distribution processes.
  • True end-to-end functionality lets customers focus on products and sales by making business decisions faster and easier, improving product delivery, and facilitating cost and inventory management. This unified model approach has been proven to enable greater agility, flexibility, and responsiveness. Simparel's next-generation software architecture is faster to deploy and extend, delivering a magnitude of scalability and performance improvements over traditional solutions. Find out why Simparel is the fastest growing ERP solution.

Union Knopf

  • 463 Seventh Ave., Suite 1304
  • New York, N.Y. 10018
  • Christopher Frost -VP of Sales & Marketing
  • (516) 445-5516
  • chris@unionknopf.com
  • Products and Services: Union Knopf is the innovative global partner for the leading designers and international manufacturers in all segments of men's and women's fashion from elegant to sporty. We provide fashionable and economic solutions for buttons, buckles, and accessories for jeans, suits and jackets, shirts, and knitwear. Our proven fashion expertise and the local integration of design, production, and customer support allow multiple customer-specific solutions with high aesthetic and qualitative claims. We work with our international partners to assist our customers and are on the spot with our own offices in Germany, Poland, Shanghai, Hong Kong, India, and Turkey to accompany and support them in their global activities.