Imports Heat Up for Holidays
Import / Export
According to a recent National Retail Federation report, merchandise imports at the country’s major ports will be up 5.1 percent in September and 9 percent in October compared with last year.
Strategies for Saving on Customs Duties
Import / Export
Customs considers pockets below the waist or any type of tightening at the bottom to be “non-blouse” features. Adding pockets to a blouse can allow an importer to take advantage of the lower duty rate. Adding elastic, a drawstring, rib knitting or other tightening element to the bottom of a blouse will similarly lower the duty rate on a blouse.
Edit, a New, Upscale Women’s Show, to Bow in New York in February
Trade Show
Business Journals Fashion Group—the organizers of MRket, Moda, Stitch and Accessories The Show—will launch a new women’s trade show in February in New York.
Surf Expo Introduces New Lifestyle Section, New Consumer-Focused Partnership
Trade Show Report
Buyers attending the recent Surf Expo, held Sept. 6–8 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., had a wide selection of surf and swim merchandise to shop.
MAFI Award to Be Presented at FBI’s All Aboard Fashion Week Fund-raiser
Fashion Fund-Raiser
The Moss Adams Fashion Innovator (MAFI) award will be presented to a Los Angeles designer during a runway show and fashion fund-raiser hosted by Fashion Business Inc. during Los Angeles Fashion Week.
Planet Blue Launches New Site, Same-Day Delivery
Fashion
Planet Blue is taking e-commerce to the next level. The Los Angeles–area multi-store retailer relaunched its website and now offers same-day shipping in select areas of Southern California. Soon, it will begin offering free international shipping to 100 countries.
Apparel News Group Purchased by Industry Veteran Terry Martinez
News
MnM Publishing announced that it has sold its Apparel News Group, including its flagship 68-year-old fashion-industry newsweekly, the California Apparel News, to Terry L. Martinez and her company, TLM Publishing Inc. Martinez, formerly the publication’s director of sales and marketing, has taken the reins as CEO and publisher.
LA Designer to Headline Palm Springs Fashion Weekend
First Palm Springs Fashion Weekend will be long on glamour.
Bethann Hardison’s Model Behavior
Fashion Revolutionist
Bethann Hardison is on a mission to bring diversity to fashion's runways.
First Retail Fur Ban in Nation Goes Into Effect in West Hollywood
Retail
On Sept. 21, West Hollywood, Calif., will become the only city in America where selling clothing made with fur is a crime.
Female Fashion Brand Roxy Receives Some Criticism
Fashion
Three-time world champion pro-surfer Cori Schumacher is expected to deliver more than 20,000 signatures from her Change.org campaign
Fashion Designer Lloyd Klein Puts His Imprint on Eyewear
Lloyd Klein and eyewear company Ivory + Mason partner up.
Apparel News Group Purchased by Industry Veteran
MnM Publishing has announced that it has sold its Apparel News Group, including its flagship 68-year-old fashion industry newsweekly, the California Apparel News, to Terry L. Martinez and her company, TLM Publishing Inc.
Hermès Reopens on Rodeo
Not Your Grandmother’s Hermès
Paris-Based Heritage Brand Hermès Opens Exquisite Flagship On Rodeo Drive.
First-ever Los Angeles Apparel Show Opens at CMC
Local designers and manufacturers band together for their first show in the penthouse of the California Market Center
Retail Imports Heat Up for the Holidays
Freight & Logistics
The Holiday season means more business for the nation’s port in the next few months.
Designer and the Muse's Comeback
High End Design, Up Close
High End Design In Intimate Setting, said new management for Designer and the Muse
World Cup Couture for Your Feet
All About Brazil
Brazilian footwear designer Fernando Pires has introduced a shoe inspired by the Brazilian flag to celebrate the upcoming World Cup in Brazil.
