Delta Apparel Sells Junkfood Clothing
Manufacturing
Twelve years after buying Los Angeles–based Junkfood Clothing Co. for more than $22.5 million, Delta Apparel is selling the T-shirt brand for about $28 million to JMJD Ventures.
Meet Skid Row Denim Academy
Brad Robinson dreams of a Los Angeles without homelessness. He's got a fashion angle to achieve that goal. Meet Skid Row Denim Academy.
Retailers, Brands Sign Up for MAGIC’s First Stop in Japan
Trade Shows
Trade-show giant UBM Americas is preparing for the launch of MAGIC Japan, a joint venture between the MAGIC trade show and JFW-International Fashion Fair, the biannual apparel trade show organized by publisher Senken Shimbun.
Fashion Week El Paseo: Design in the Desert
Design in the Desert
Fashion fans flocked to Palm Desert, Calif., for the 12th annual Fashion Week El Paseo. The runway lineup included West Coast designers as well as labels from across the U.S. and around the world.
Aritizia, Bailey 44 Among Boutiques Moving to Westfield Century City
Retail
The Westfield Century City retail center is continuing work on a $1 billion remodel of its real estate in Los Angeles’ Century City district this year, and recently the high-end retail center announced a slate of new boutiques.
US Supreme Court Strengthens Fashion Copyright
Manufacturing
The fashion business might become more litigious, thanks to a recent Supreme Court decision, according to a discussion about the court’s decision at law firm Freeman Freeman & Smiley LLP in Los Angeles’ Century City district.
U.S. Textile and Apparel Industry Inching Forward After Steep Asian Competition
Textiles
The U.S. textile and apparel industries have seen revenues slowly rise over the last seven years as free-trade agreements and rising Asian prices have given local textile and clothing makers a bit of a reprieve.
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.
