LA Swim Week Starts on Irreverent Note
LA Swim Week
For its second run at the Skirball Cultural Center in West LA, the Los Angeles Swim Week fashion shows started on an irreverent note.
Orders Despite Uncertainty at Las Vegas Trade Shows
LV Trade Shows
The apparel industry headed to Las Vegas on the hunt for new trends and new business at the many apparel and sourcing trade shows spread across the city.
Denim Defines the Clothing Trends for Back-to-School Apparel
Retail
Consumer spending on clothes and other items should definitely be in positive territory this fall as shoppers are feeling more confident about their economic condition and rising housing prices make people feel wealthier.
Retail Sales Show Solid Gains in July
Retail
Online sales took a giant 11.4 percent step forward from last year as shoppers let their fingers do the buying. Of all the categories broken out by the National Retail Federation, it was the winner in the NRF’s monthly tabulation of retail sales.
Price and Value Are Driving Retail Business
Retail
A recent survey by the International Council of Shopping Centers shows that the majority of U.S. adults are loyal to brands and retailers because of price and value.
Differential Brands Sees Sales Grow in the Second Quarter
Manufacturing
Differential Brands Group—the Los Angeles company whose labels include denim label Hudson, Robert Graham and SWIMS—reported net sales growth for its second quarter but a net loss.
Janie Bryant of "Mad Men" Creates Collection for Unique Vintage
Fashion
Costume designer Janie Bryant designs 12-piece collection for Unique Vintage.
Rodd & Gunn Takes a Bow at Westfield Century City
New Zealand’s Rodd & Gunn clothiers are taking a wider gamble on California. The third Rodd & Gunn store in California opened Aug. 10 at the Westfield Century City mall, which neighbors affluent enclaves such as Beverly Hills and West Los Angeles.
Debbie Harry X Obey Comes to Melrose
The Debbie Harry X Obey Collection lands in a pop-up shop on Los Angeles' Melrose Avenue.
Get Your Game Shirt On
A Tokyo and Worcester, Mass.-based company has designed a sensor-enabled shirt to optimize your time spent in the virtual world—and the real one.
Bread Gets Money for E-commerce Payment Program
Technology
Bread is a New York–headquartered finance technology company that lets merchants give their customers the option to pay for items in several installments over time.
Denim Designers Debut First Collection With Pottery Barn
Design
Emily Current and Meritt Elliott debut first collection for Pottery Barn.
Apparel Decorating Solution Precise Software Joins Open Systems Business Solutions Software
Technology
Precise Software, a Minnesota-based company that provides software solutions to the decorated apparel market, has merged with Open Systems, a provider of business software solutions such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer-relationship management (CRM).
Billiam Jeans: Building High-End Denim One Jean at a Time
Manufacturing
On a recent weekday afternoon, denim loyalists trickle into a small store in a nondescript strip shopping center in Greenville, S.C. They’ve come to be measured and fitted for custom-made jeans or they are anxiously waiting to pick up their finished product.
Fair Trade Fashion Event Raises $31,000 for Anti-Trafficking Organization
Fair Trade Fashion
The Fair Trade Fashion Show, held July 29 at CTRL Collective in downtown Los Angeles, raised $31,000 for Free the Slaves, an international nonprofit organization that helps anti-trafficking efforts in Haiti, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Nepal and India.
DSTLD Plans Second Round of Crowd-Funding, Pop-Ups and Other Events Planned
Retail
DSTLD, the direct-to-consumer contemporary brand for men and women, is preparing to open up its second round of crowdfunding.
CFA Breaks Down Intellectual Property Landscape
Legal
The California Fashion Association broke down an ever-widening field of intellectual-property issues for a group of apparel manufacturers and retailers at a recent strategy session featuring several legal and insurance experts.
New Non-profit Twice New Aims to Turn Event Waste Into Charitable Opportunity
Events
Crystal Ortiz and Christina Rosenberg spent years planning and producing large-scale, big-budget events such as corporate parties at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and South by Southwest. With their latest project,—the nonprofit organization Twice New—the two are focused on the less-glamorous side of event planning: what to do with all that food and other items left over after the guests have gone home.
Le Box Blanc’s Neighborhood Store in DTLA
Retail
For the past two years, Le Box Blanc has been delivering contemporary fashions to people all over America from its e-commerce shop .
