Swim Collective Heading to New Home in August
Swim & Surf
Swim Collective, the 4-year-old West Coast swimwear trade show, will have a new home in August at the St. Regis Monarch Beach in Dana Point, Calif.
Off-Price Demand Fuels Growth for Retailers
Retail
This year is shaping up to be a banner year for off-price retailers, the market segment best known for selling clothes at 20 percent to 70 percent off full price.
The Trend Chasers: Full-Package Production in Downtown LA
Made In America
The Trend Chasers employ 160 people in an 80,000-square-foot facility in the LA Garment District.
Best Dressed Monk to Debut Store, Fashion Line
Designer Profile
When men’s fashion label Best Dressed Monk opens its first boutique in Santa Barbara, Calif.’s exclusive Montecito enclave today, it hopes to give men a sartorial choice between fashion extremes.
LastaShop: Iceland Loves L.A. Fashion
There is an Icelandic business community in L.A. One of its hubs is LastaShop. It makes clothes.
Sullen Clothing: Tattoo You!
You may know Sullen Clothing's T-shirts, but on Dec. 7, it will be producing a gallery show of tattoo art. Get ready.
Activewear Gets Technical
WearableTech
New Silicon Valley–based activewear brand Athos has incorporated electromyography or EMG technology ( typically used in biomedical applications) into fitness apparel to help the wearer gauge just how effective the workout is.
Combat Cotton
Performance Luxury
Trimara Military Technology, a division of Trimera Group, an international branded and licensed apparel company, has introduced (and trademarked) Hellblock, a “military grade flame resistance technology…fused with ultra-soft Pima cotton.
Balls, Backboards and Now Shoes
Spalding Athletic Shoes
Spalding, maker of basketball equipment such as backboards and balls is launching a new athletic shoe collection, which will bow next year.
Swim Collective Heading to New Home in August
Trade Show
Swim Collective, the 4-year-old West Coast swimwear trade show, will have a new home in August at the St. Regis Monarch Beach in Dana Point, Calif.
Ron Robinson's New Look
Ron Robinson has long been one of the most prominent retailers at the Fred Segal compound of boutiques. On Nov. 21, he debuted the new look for his StylObjects shop.
RHCreation Wins Big at Fashion Week San Diego
At Fashion Week San Diego, the audience voted for label RHCreation as the best designer label.
Denim Recycling Goes Big
Cotton Inc.'s Blue Jeans Go Green program celebrated recycling a million pieces of denim. It's to help communities in need.
Alchemy Works, a New Multi-Brand Shop, to Downtown Los Angeles
Alchemy Works
Apolis Common Gallery's sister store is a multi-brand shop
Alternative’s New S.F. Store Wants Consumers & Citizens
Retail
After building two stores in Los Angeles, basics brand Alternative, formerly Alternative Apparel, is scheduled to open a store in San Francisco on Dec. 8.
Ron Robinson Debuts 1st Pop-Up Shop at Independent Boutique
Pop-Up Downtown
Robinson opens a pop-up shop at Guerilla Atelier
Industry Voices: Protecting Your Fashion Designs Before Employees Leave
Manufacturing
Innovation is at the heart of the fashion industry.
Cherokee Takes Liz Lange to India
Manufacturing
Sherman Oaks, Calif.–based Cherokee Inc. struck a licensing deal with Mahindra Retail Pvt Ltd. to sell Liz Lange Maternity apparel in Mahindra’s Mom & Me stores throughout India.
Ralph Barnes to Helm Beverly Center
Retail
Ralph Barnes, operations director at the prominent Beverly Center mall in Los Angeles, has been promoted to general manager, it was announced recently.
