The Team Behind Puma’s Minion-Inspired Style
Meet the team behind Puma x Minions, the recent collab between venerable athletic shoe Puma and the cute, yellow creatures from the “Despicable Me” film series.
Luxe Knits With a Creative Edge
Designer Nathalie Saphier recently showcased the Spring/Summer '17 collection of her Replica knits line at a trunk show at Belljar in L.A.’s Los Feliz neighborhood.
Sun, Sand, Surf and Sports
Street Style: Venice
Los Angeles’ Venice Beach is world famous for its crowds of sun lovers and fitness buffs.
Siloett Gets a Made-for-TV Makeover
Swim/Surf
With decades of swim business experience and a label on the rocks, the Handy family found an avenue to rebrand and rebuild on reality TV.
Swim Designers Forecast Cruise ’18 Trends
Designer View Point
From travel lust to Wonder Woman–inspired power suits, beachwear is being influenced by all manner of pop culture. This season, we caught up with designers from Bondi Beach to Lima, Peru, and the shores of SoCal to find out the latest trends for Cruise ’18.
Z Supply: Classic Styles in Figure-Flattering Fits
Swim/Surf
Z Supply LLC, the Irvine, Calif., maker of Z Supply fashion basics, is diving into its first swim collection for Spring 2018. Combining sleek, figure-flattering looks in a nylon/spandex fabric, the launch collection will include 10 bikinis and one-piece styles.
Horizon Swim: A Swimwear Label With a Personal Touch
Swim/Surf
By day, Jessi Taylor is an executive assistant at a Los Angeles advertising company. By night she is a swimwear designer who makes her own patterns and sews her own swimsuits—one by one—for her line called Horizon Swim.
Drupe: Around the World With an International Staff:
Swim/Surf
When Mireya de Andrés told her parents she was quitting her banking job in Geneva, Switzerland, to start a fashion line, they thought she was crazy. Fashion seemed to be on the flip side of the finance world.
Swimming in a New Direction
Tori Praver
Tori Praver modeled for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition in far-flung locales such as the Canary Islands off of Spain, her home island of Maui, and Turks and Caicos in the Caribbean. This year she is going to be modeling for her own brand.
Old Bull Lee: After Walk Shorts, Try Surf
Swim/Surf
Rent a Manhattan Beach address, and it might only be a matter of time before you are in the surf business.
Raj & Sports Illustrated Team for Swim Brand
Manufacturing
For more than 50 years, the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue has been making headlines with its pictorials of supermodels posing in fashion’s most stylish swimwear in exotic locales.
Home Shopping Network is Being Acquired by QVC
Retail
Two big television shopping cable networks will now be one.
June Sales Sunny for Some Retailers
Retail
Some retailers saw June gloom. Some experienced a positively sunny June.
Action Sports Vet Smith Joins Boardriders
Manufacturing
Nate Smith was named president of the Americas region for Boardriders Inc., the Huntington Beach, Calif., parent company of Quiksilver, Roxy and DC Shoes.
Vuori Pops at Malibu Country Mart
The Vuori brand makes performance apparel for yoga, CrossFit and other activities. It recently opened a pop-up at Malibu Country Mart.
Lectra Introduces Fashion PLM 4.0 at Industry 4.0 Event
Technology
French equipment and software maker Lectra recently introduced its latest product lifecycle management software at an industry event at the Paris-based company’s technology center in Bordeaux.
AAFOA Looking to Drive Innovation for Functional Fabrics
Textiles
Advanced Functional Fabrics of America—which is based at MIT and has nearly 100 members from a diverse group of manufacturers, startups and institutes of higher learning—is leading a $317 million private-public effort to drive innovation in textile and fiber manufacturing.
Hyosung and Sofileta Partner for New Creora Fresh Collection
Textiles
French textile mill Sofileta is working with South Korean fiber company Hyosung on a new collection featuring Hyosung’s Creora Fresh fiber.
