Alternative Takes a Bow
Levi's California Collection
Levi Strauss & Co.’s new brand, Levi’s California introduced a collection designed by Nic Rendic, Levi’s global design director.
California Presence at Massive Intertextile Shanghai
Trade Show
With 15 halls covering nearly 1.8 millionsquare feet of space and more than 3,800 exhibitors showing textiles and trim from 30 countries and regions, the Oct. 20–23 run of the Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics trade show could be described as massive.
Restaurant Could Be the Missing Piece for Robertson Revival
Retail
Once the address for the most coveted commercial real estate in Los Angeles, Robertson Boulevard has seen the fashion boutiques move out and move in over the years, but since Newsroom Café closed in September, some of the street’s businesses are anxious over the prominent thoroughfare’s future.
California Apparel Makers Concerned About ‘Made in USA’ Label
Manufacturing
A recent federal judge’s ruling is making California apparel makers think twice about how they label their garments in the future.
U.S. Labor Department Finds Southern California Garment Workers Owed Millions in Back Wages and Overtime
Labor Law
A U.S. Department of Labor survey of 221 investigations in the last year found that more than 1,500 Southern California garment workers are owned more than $3 million in unpaid wages.
Opening Melrose Store
Nasty Gal
E-commerce emporium Nasty Gal is taking its show to a bricks-and-mortar store on Los Angeles’ Melrose Avenue.
Basic Line Corp. Selling Its Embroidery and Embellishment Company
For nearly 23 years, the Shalom brothers have operated Basic Line Corp., a popular embroidery and embellishment company, out of a huge industrial building they own in Vernon, Calif.
New Yoga Store Opens First California Store in Los Angeles
Retail
Yogasmoga finds a retail home on the Westside.
Beverly Center: Style and Chinese Dollars
Chinese tourism and business has become increasingly important to California’s economy, and retailers have been looking for ways to get more involved in that business. Beverly Center may have found a way to cultivate future Chinese business. It’s seminars and styling advice!
Rock Chic
Fashion Collab
Hot Topic launched its Joan Jett X TRIPP NYC Fashion Collection for Hot Topic collection, a collaboration between the City of Industry, Calif.–based retailer, rocker Joan Jett and rock ‘n roll clothier Tripp NYC.
Aether To District LaBrea
Performance outerwear brand Aether will open a store at District LaBrea in Los Angeles. A store sign was recently unveiled above a barricade at District LaBrea.
The Bohemian Society Gets Wilde At Heart
Victor Wilde’s The Bohemian Society went on the lam from the last LA Fashion Week. Instead, the downtown Los Angeles fashion brand did a presentation during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo in October. Take a look!
Revolve Pops at The Grove
E-commerce emporium Revolve Clothing opened a pop-up shop at Los Angeles’ The Grove retail center on Nov. 1. Blogger Chiara Ferragni of The Blonde Salad dropped by the opening to give fashion people a look at her Chiara Ferragni shoe collection.
Lillian Raven: Bring Back Sewing!
Los Angeles designer Lillian Raven hopes to do her part to bring manufacturing and the art of sewing back. She made a curriculum for youth that teaches sewing and fashion design. Raven recently started a crowdsourcing campaign on Indiegogo for her venture,” I Am therefore I Sew.”
Rochelle Carino: Never Too Old To Play Dress Up
You’re never too old to play dress up. That was an inspiration behind Rochelle Carino’s Spring 2015 show at Los Angeles Fashion Council earlier this month.
What’s Checking: Destination Retailers
Retail
In a sea of large corporate retailers, vintage stores and strip malls, there still remains a small species of contemporary boutique that has flourished in stand-alone bricks-and-mortar locations rather than in a boutique neighborhood surrounded by other retailers who cater to a similar customer.
Metropolitan Fashion Week Bows in L.A.
Metropolitan LA
Los Angeles designer Jason Ryan showed his avant-garde menswear collection as part of Metropolitan Fashion Week, held Oct. 26 at Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills.
West Coast Debut
Ruffian
New York designers Brian Wolk and Claude Morais skipped the New York Fashion Week runways at Lincoln Center in favor of a more intimate setting at the Gavlak Gallery in Los Angeles, where the two showed their Spring 2015 Ruffian collection on Oct. 27.
San Clemente Retailer Killed in Murder Suicide
Retail
A day at Bliss boutique in San Clemente, Calif., turned tragic when Cynthia Jean Rosier, the owner of Bliss, was allegedly shot and killed by her husband, Patrick Dillard, on Oct. 25.
