Yarn Movement to Host Sip N' Stitch Sessions
FASHION EVENTS
Through launching the Yarn Movement Sip N' Stitch virtual sessions, which will begin Dec. 27, founder Shantelle Brumfield—also known as S.LadyBug is hoping to encourage people everywhere to crochet.
Digital-Commerce Gains Through Passport and Whatnot Funding
TECHNOLOGY
For two California digital-commerce companies, the year is ending with venture-capital funding.
IMC Reveals Plans for February Atlanta Apparel Market
TRADE SHOWS
As trade-show producers begin to emerge from a year in which many events were postponed or canceled in favor of virtual editions, International Market Centers’ Atlanta Apparel Market is looking toward 2021 with great optimism.
Businesses Chart Next Steps After Congress Approves Stimulus Bill
COVID-19 FINANCIAL RELIEF
After months of wrangling, Congress passed a $2.3 trillion COVID-19 relief stimulus bill Monday, which will include $600 checks sent to individuals earning less than $75,000 annually and a second round of payment protection plan funds for small businesses.
Lakai X Black Sabbath
FASHION
Skatebrand Lakai started business in 1999, the year pioneering metal band Black Sabbath produced an important comeback tour. About 21 years later, Lakai and Sabbath are collaborating.
Canada Goose Pops Up at The Grove
RETAIL
The Canada Goose brand cultivated a reputation for making outerwear to take on harsh Canadian winters. But it is showing outerwear and goods made for Los Angeles weather.
Informa Markets Fashion and NuOrder Provide Trade-Event Summary
VIRTUAL TRADE EVENTS
After ending its inaugural, exclusively digital trade event, which was hosted Sept. 1–Nov.1, Informa Markets Fashion and its e-commerce platform partner NuOrder revealed important insight derived from its metrics.
Newsmakers 2020
Newsmakers 2020
While a global pandemic shook the world and a sensitive political climate shaped the United States, the fashion industry answered the call to support essential workers by creating personal protective equipment and engaging in new methods of conducting business. California Apparel News looks back at the awe-inspiring and newsworthy stories from 2020.
IBM to Partner With Port of L.A. to Thwart Cybersecurity Threats
L.A. Port Cybersecurity
Taking steps to improve its response to cybersecurity threats to the supply chain, the Port of Los Angeles announced that the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners approved the International Business Machines Corporation as the designer and operator of the port’s Cyber Resilience Center.
Organized Retail Theft Surges, Study Says
Retail
Organized retail crime—or shoplifting and cargo theft committed by professional thieves—has been surging, according to the 16th annual Organized Retail Crime study released Dec. 15 by the National Retail Federation trade group.
Stronger Together, MAGIC, Offprice and WWIN to Share Space for Orlando Shows
Trade Shows
Following the Dec. 3 announcement that it would host a MAGIC Pop Up Orlando trade event Feb. 9–11 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., Informa Markets Fashion revealed that it is working with Clarion Events and the Tarsus Group to produce co-located events for the return of on-site trade shows to serve the fashion community.
Industry Voices: Fashion—Made in California Could Hasten an Economic Revival
Fashion
The COVID-19 pandemic clearly exposed vulnerability in the domestic supply chain for essential materials for end-product production. The difficulty of securing PPE materials and products, in addition to the overreliance of our supply chain on China and Asia, is widely recognized.
Super Saturday to Mark the Final Sprint in an Unpredictable Holiday Season
Retail
The 2020 holiday-retail season is preparing for its final run on Dec. 19, or Super Saturday. The Saturday before Christmas has traditionally been one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
Newsmakers 2020: Trinidad3 Serves Industry by Expanding Domestic Denim Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Committed to service, the Los Angeles–made premium-denim brand Trinidad3 began 2020 with the launch of jeans that allow amputees to adjust prosthetic legs through a 12-inch seam on the inside of the thigh. The style, named Barron by Trinidad3, was inspired by Marine veteran Josue Barron, a Purple Heart recipient who lost his left leg in Afghanistan.
Newsmakers 2020: Voicing Need for Change, Kevan Hall Places Action Behind Words
Fashion
In 2020, the veteran fashion designer and co-founder of Black Design Collective Kevan Hall was one of the first to respond to the need for personal protective equipment. Working with fellow designer Malena Ruth, Hall enhanced existing hospital gowns and created masks to protect workers and patients at area hospitals and nursing facilities. This work also led the designer to donate a mask to frontline workers for every mask sold to a customer.
Newsmakers 2020: 25 Years of Trina Turk Influence Design Across Categories
Fashion
After 25 years of designing her eponymous fashion line, Trina Turk has influenced not only clothing but also the worlds of home design and travel. As she reflected on this milestone anniversary, the California designer released her book “Trina Turk” to share her colorful world with others as she recalled her own influences.
Tukatech Unveils On Demand 3D Services
Technology
The Los Angeles–headquartered fashion-technology company Tukatech has been rolling out services that help designers create garments virtually on a 3D platform. On Dec. 15, Tukatech announced that its TUKAcenter locations and its web-services portal, TUKAweb, will offer services to create 3D garments on demand, with Tukatech staff helping designers create clothes virtually.
Newsmakers 2020: California Apparel News Celebrates 75 Influential Years
Fashion
First published 75 years ago from in its then-headquarters at 210 W. Seventh St. in downtown Los Angeles, California Apparel News has served the global fashion industry and local apparel businesses. Launched July 6, 1945, by Joe Osherenko, the publication began during a time when World War II servicemen were returning home to the United States.
Newsmakers 2020: Virtual Trade Shows Connect a Grounded Fashion Industry
Trade Shows
As the COVID-19 pandemic reached the shores of the United States in early 2020, apparel-industry trade-show producers canceled on-site shows and pushed back in-person events. One of the first event producers to think outside the trade-show floor was Kingpins, which introduced its April virtual edition of Kingpins24, a streaming event.
Pulling Back the Curtain With BDC and Kerby Jean-Raymond
Pulling Back the Curtain
Fashion powerhouse Kerby Jean-Raymond and design legend TJ Walker recently sat in on a Black Design Collective and Ta’Nisha Cameron–produced event called “Pull Back the Curtain: A Conversation With TJ Walker and Kerby Jean-Raymond.”
