Stories for April 2023

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Friday, April 28

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Louis Vuitton Crafts Luxurious Design Dreams in Bel Air

Events

An expansive, airy private home in the tony Bel Air, Calif., neighborhood set the tone for Louis Vuitton’s latest savoir-faire experience in Los Angeles on April 13.

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LYCRA Sets Goal of 80 Percent Higg Verification by 2024

Sustainability

LYCRA is as close to a household name as a fiber maker can get, but there’s nothing like industry validation to assure you stay at the forefront of innovation.

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The Commons at Calabasas Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary

Retail

In 1991, Calabasas, Calif., incorporated as a city. Seven years later, The Commons at Calabasas opened its doors, which means the beloved destination for shopping and dining is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a host of events that began this spring.

Wednesday, April 26

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Functional Fabric Fair Boasts Largest Show to Date

Trade Show Reports

Powered by Performance Days, the spring edition of Functional Fabric Fair returned to Portland, Ore., April 4–5 to showcase the latest trends and innovations in textile development for the Spring 2024/2025 seasons.

Friday, April 14

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Art Hearts Fashion Honors L.A. Fashion’s Roots and Supports Its Future

Fashion’s Roots

During its March 16–19 run at The Majestic Downtown, Art Hearts Fashion welcomed fresh design voices to the Los Angeles Fashion Week runway while honoring veteran designers.

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Jeanologia Aspires to Make the Most Sustainable Jeans

Denim

Water may be the most plentiful substance on earth, but as most of it is seawater, the life-giving liquid remains a precious commodity. Reducing its consumption in garment finishing is the key mission of Jeanologia, a Spain-based leader in sustainable technology that can reduce water usage in garment finishing to 1 percent of the amount used in conventional methods.

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PacSun, NYC’s Met Museum Collaborate on New Collection

Fashion

“Life is short and art is long,” runs an old saying. Put in clothing terms, we might say that fashion is ever-changing but art is eternal...

Inside the Industry

Inside the Industry

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With Its Latest Innovations, Kornit Digital Shows World of ‘Smart Manufacturing’

Technology

In a world of mutual dependencies, the only way to successfully navigate change is with more change. A fast-changing marketplace requires new technologies that can keep up with it, and the industry term for this is “solutions.”

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Beyza Baykan Relies on the HMS Family Stone to Create Cleaner Denim

Cleaner Denim

As Beyza Baykan pursued her applied-and-computational-mathematics and international-relations studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, she planned for a career combating the negative impacts of climate change in developing countries.

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The Iconic Levi’s 501 Jean Celebrates Its Sesquicentennial

501 turns 150

The iconic five-pocket blue jean invented by Levi Strauss turns the big one-five-oh...