Fashion Resource Guide
Thousands of brands in women’s and men’s clothing, accessories, footwear, and innerwear showcase their newest Fall 2010 collections for the March 19–23 run of Los Angeles Fashion Market. In anticipation, we have highlighted manufacturers, showroom buildings, and trade shows in downtown Los Angeles that will be open for market as well as key resources for future market dates in nationwide locations.
Los Angeles–based American Apparel is a vertically integrated manufacturer and retailer of clothing for men, women, kids, and pets, offering an expansive year-round line to which new styles and colors are continuously introduced. The company prioritizes quality and classic fits that transcend trends and time and often turns to its customers for ideas and feedback. Check out the extensive offerings at www.americanapparel.net.
The California Market Center (CMC) is the hub for the style industries in Los Angeles. More than 1,000 showrooms and nearly 10,000 product lines are housed in three 13-story wings. The CMC is open daily and hosts five major fashion markets, two textile markets, and four gift and home markets each year in addition to a range of market days, fashion weeks, educational events, and seminars throughout the year. Show dates are as follows: LA Fashion Market Fall ’10, March 19–23; Transit & Focus, March 20–23; LA Fashion Market Fall II/Holiday ’10, June 14–17; LA Fashion Market Holiday/Resort ’10, Aug. 9–12; LA Fashion Market Spring ’11, Oct. 15–19. Visit www.californiamarketcenter.com.
Within the Dallas Market Center marketplace of more than 5 million square feet, retailers from around the globe can shop apparel and accessories for men, women, and children, specialty categories of bridal, special occasion, prom, quinceantilde;era and Western, home furnishings, gifts, decorative accessories, gourmet, lighting, textiles, floral, seasonal deacute;cor, and much more. With more than 50 markets each year attended by more than 200,000 retail buyers from all 50 states and 84 countries, Dallas Market Center offers hundreds of events and seminars geared toward helping retailers expand business and increase profits. As a result, more than $8 billion in estimated wholesale transactions are conducted annually within the Dallas Market Center complex. Visit www.dallasmarketcenter.com for more information and market dates.
The Fashion Market Northern California has been the premiere marketplace in Northern California for 50 years. Fashion Market continues to provide buyers with the most complete shopping experience in the Bay Area. With more than 2,000 ready-to-wear collections, Fashion Market offers the largest open-booth format on the West Coast. Fashion Market is designed and merchandised to meet the needs of ready-to-wear buyers of moderate, better and bridge collections. Whether you are an established brand, a new line, or an up-and-coming designer, Fashion Market provides an opportunity to showcase your lines five times a year. Market dates are April 10–13, June 26–29, Aug. 28–30, and Oct. 23–26. Visit www.fashionmarketnorcal.com.
Three times per year, manufacturers and direct importers of fashion jewelry, accessories, watches, handbags, and related products gather at The International Fashion Jewelry & Accessory Show to offer wholesalers and volume buyers their styles for next season. The show is held Feb. 17–21 in Orlando, Fla.; May 2–5 in New York; and Sept. 12–16 in Rhode Island. Every exhibitor has a private showroom, and the show covers five hotel floors. For complete information, visit www.jewelrytradeshows.com or call (401) 295-4564.
Noblita non-denim jeans are denim jean bodies in knit fabrics such as French terry/spandex, modal/rayon/spandex, cotton/poly/spandex and nylon/spandex. Owner and designer Rik Guido is based in Los Angeles and produces the entire line in L.A., including the knitting of fabric, dying, washing and manufacturing of the goods. In bodies that include skinny, cargo skinny, boot cut, bell bottom, flair pant, straight leg, Capri, 5-pocket shorts, skirts, motor jackets, motor vest, jumpsuits, and rompers, the styles are comfortable and offer freedom of movement for dance, yoga, or work. Average retail price is $78–$128. Current accounts include Bloomingdale’s, Nordstrom, Free People, Metropark, and about 250 specialty stores.
Since 1994, Saivana has been collaborating with leading European designers such as Isabel Marant, Kenzo, Dries Van Noten, and Suzzane Rutzou. Realizing the strength of the company in Europe and sensing a demand for its unique designs worldwide, the Saivana Collection was launched in the USA in December 2008. The Saivana collection seamlessly blends modernity with timeless embroideries, delivering must-have luxury garments with our signature flair. Ever evolving creativity, with the highest degree of quality, has enabled Saivana to create its own niche in the fashion industry.
Silk Culture is a boutique apparel company committed to the production of premium contemporary fashion garments. With over 20 years of experience, we pride ourselves on not sourcing any part of our production elsewhere; thus, we oversee that each garment is produced with the highest standard of quality. Our silk and silk-blended fabrics are truly nature’s gift, adding the luxurious feel, comfort, and durability that other fabrics lack. Our company’s principal is committed to fashion and loves the application of high fashion to our daily lives. We at Silk Culture celebrate the needs and the fashion flair of our customers, whether casual or evening wear. Be part of our culture—the “Silk Culture.” Visit www.silkculture.com.
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