Kanye in Fashion
Musician, celebrity, fashion icon and provocateur Kanye West was recently spotted teaching a fashion class at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College in downtown LA.
Construction Ramping up For A.P.C.in DTLA
Call it a forecast come true. Since the beginning of this year, blogs and interviews with Jean Touitou noted that his highly anticipated A.P.C. boutique was scheduled to open in downtown Los Angeles. Recently, a public note confirmed that the French denim and ready-to-wear boutique will open in downtown's fashion district.
A Different Approach to LA Fashion Week?
Fashion
Maybe designers should take to the LA streets to show their new collections.
L.A.’s Suitably Enough in Vancouver
While another Los Angeles Fashion Week is scheduled to run next month, Michaela Mendiola of the Suitably Enough fashion label in the Los Angeles area produced a runway show for her fashions in Vancouver Fashion Week in British Columbia. Here’s a couple of looks.
Get Your Sample Sale Shoes On
The 3.1 Philip Lim sample sale is coming back to downtown Los Angeles.
McCartney Car Couture
Luxury auto maker Jaguar teamed up with designer Stella McCartney to create fleet of Jaguar XE model cars inspired by the designer and featuring her Superhero print from her Spring 2015 collection.
Fashion Industry Spotlight
Ilse Metchek, president of the California Fashion Association, was featured in the Los Angeles Times “How I Made It” column.
New Sam Edelman Flagship Store in Southern California
Retail
The West Coast gets its first Sam Edelman flagship store.
In Heroes We Trust Stays Up Late
In Heroes We Trust, one of Abbot Kinney Boulevard's newest shops, stayed open late on Sept. 18 to party with the designers and artists represented in the shop. Check it out.
50 Ways To Shop DTLA
Last year the map counted 36 stores. This year they found 50 boutique style stores in downtown Los Angeles. When they publish another edition of “50 Reasons To Shop DTLA,” probably around Black Friday, Cinnia Finfer and Kuo Yang expect to find more high end boutique shops. Meet the mapmakers of downtown Los Angeles' burgeoning boutique market.
Same-Day Service to Give Edge to Macy’s and Others
Retail
From recommendation algorithms to drones, Amazon.com and other major e-commerce sites branded themselves as the go-to places for new retail tech and convenience, but Macy’s Inc. and other big mall companies are pushing back.
The Celect: Dramatic Style for Multi-line shop
Retail
Independent, multi-line retailer The Celect prides itself on its diversity and trying out new ideas, but some things don’t seem to change this six-month-old boutique.
Straight Out of Austin
Stag
Abbot Kinney Boulevard has become one of Los Angeles’ top fashion streets—a place where unique brands from Los Angeles, New York and around the globe go to make a statement. But the latest boutique on Abbot Kinney hopes to give the street an Austin point of view.
Making a Los Angeles Bow
Montreal’s M0851
Since 1987, Montreal brand M0851 has been making leather jackets and bags for men and women in a workshop in Montreal. Other than its New York shop, it had no other branded stores in the United States—until now.
Avant Garde Paris Store L’Eclaireur Opening in LA, Tranoi Heading to NY.
Retail
In 2015, the French retailer intends to open a location for his avant-garde-inspired boutique, L’Eclaireur, in Los Angeles, according to a spokesperson.
Beverly Center’s Ferragamo Scheduled to Reopen
Retail
On Oct. 10, Salvatore Ferragamo is scheduled to unveil a redesign of its boutique in Los Angeles’ Beverly Center, according to a Ferragamo statement.
CFA Members Event Discusses Private Label and Branded Manufacturing
Manufacturing
There’s no magic formula for striking the right balance between producing your own brand and producing private-label products for retailers. But having a mix of both can be a good strategy for growing a brand as you maintain a steady stream of production work.
Customs Officials Ease Back on Changes for First-Sale Rule
Import & Export
Customs officials have stopped pushing for major adjustments to the so-called “First-Sale Rule,” which would have required handing over a boatload of documents to validate where goods were made and at what price.
How Mounting Congestion at Local Ports Is Affecting Apparel Importers
Import & Export
Bob Wysocki of Sears Holdings complained that sometimes it takes as long as one to two weeks to extract his merchandise out of the port complex in Los Angeles and get Sears’ cargo containers on a train, where it might take another two weeks to reach a warehouse.
