Alvanon and BodiData Partner Up to Help Apparel Industry With Sizing
Technology
How many times have customers praised a designer for a pair of perfectly fitted blue jeans and then snapped them up without glancing at the price?
Cohen & Sons Balances Vintage and New Moto Styles
Cohen & Sons
Motorcycle fashions are perennially in style, from the classic looks of Steve McQueen and biker gangs such as the Hells Angels to the folks who race motorcycles.
LAMM Brings In The New
LAMM
LA Men’s Market has been producing trade shows since 2013, but the recent March 28–29 run of the show at the California Market Center looked to freshen up the show and bring in the new.
BCBG Max Azria Lays Off More Employees Following Bankruptcy Filing
The BCBG Max Azria Group, which filed for bankruptcy protection on Feb. 28, gave notice on March 13 that it will lay off another 116 people, effective May 11. This comes after the Los Angeles contemporary label laid off 123 people last November and another 71 people one year ago.
Puma’s Locked-Box Challenge
To reward (and challenge) young athletes, athletic footwear and apparel maker Puma thought inside the box.
WestWeek 2017 Salutes Icons and Innovators
Art + Fashion
WestWeek 2017 highlighted “Icons and Innovators” at its March 22-23 Spring Market at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, Calif.
Mr. A's Uniqlo Moment
How does a Paris-based graffiti artist connect with a Japanese headquartered retailer to make T-shirts? And then globetrot to Los Angeles introduce the capsule collection with Uniqlo’s UT label? The artist André Saraiva explained.
On the Runway at FWLA
Fashion
Roosevelt Broome IV, founder of Rich Apparels, shows off his T-shirts at FWLA.
Bebe Hires Firm to Chart New Course
Retail
After speculation that Bebe Stores Inc. might shutter all its locations and concentrate on e-commerce, the California retailer announced it hired B. Riley & Co. to help “explore strategic alternatives.”
Chupakabra Found In a T-shirt Line
Manufacturing
There’s the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot and, since the mid-1990s, chupacabra. It sounded like the perfect starting-off point for a T-shirt line for Eric Martin, the founder of The Park Showroom in downtown Los Angeles.
Profile Industries' L.A. Splash
Weather in the northeast has become more extreme. What do you do when you make warm weather clothes. For Manhattan-headquartered Profile Industries, Inc., the solution was opening a showroom in Los Angeles.
Please Do Not Enter’s Westside Invasion
In Los Angeles, there is a Westside and an Eastside, and the two rarely meet, except in the pop-up shop produced by Please Do Not Enter
Disabled Worker Wins Discrimination Case Against Citizens of Humanity
Manufacturing
In a court case that took more than three weeks to argue, a 61-year-old employee who felt he was wrongfully dismissed after a shoulder injury limited his ability to work won a major verdict against his employer, Citizens of Humanity.
Los Angeles Fashion Week: California Point of View
LAFW: CA Point of View
Los Angeles Fashion Week: Fall 2017
Sears Remains ‘Viable Business’ CFO Says
Retail
The worlds of Sears Holdings Corp. investors and shoppers were rocked this week when the parent company to Sears and KMart issued an annual report noting that there was “substantial doubt” on the Chicago-area company’s future.
Riding Out Big Changes in Retail at Marcum Panel
Retail
There are 26 square feet of retail for every man, woman and child in the United States, according to a statistic quoted by Robin Lewis, chief executive and editorial director of The Robin Report, a platform covering retail.
Future State in 2017
Future State
When the Future State brand started in late 2014, it offered an array of women’s T-shirts and placed the new line in retailers such as Urban Outfitters.
Nordstrom Taps Infor Cloud-based POS System
Technology
Nordstrom is switching to a new cloud-based point-of-sale system run by technology-solutions provider Infor.
