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GUESS JEANS Opens Los Angeles Homecoming Flagship
By Alexandra Romero, Contributing Writer | February 12, 2026
GUESS JEANS opened its Los Angeles Homecoming Store at Melrose Avenue and San Vicente Boulevard Jan. 31, signaling a return to the brand’s California roots and the next phase of its global retail strategy.
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New Fashion Event to Blend Trade and Consumer
Fashion Destination Group, a new Orange County, Calif.–based fashion-event organization, will host an all-day event on June 9 in Dana Point, Calif., that will feature runway shows, seminars an...
FIDM to Host Couture Fabric Sale
California private couturier Nora Martin is retiring and has donated her entire stock of 2,150 yards of designer fabric to the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, which ...
Manufacturers Charity Sale Returns to Downtown LA
The Fashion Industries Guild of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center will bring its Manufacturers Charity Clothing Sale back to the Los Angeles Fashion District after an eight-year h...
Lucky Hosts West Coast Edition of Its FABB Conference
Lucky magazine headed west recently for its FABB: Fashion and Beauty Blogger Conference. The event took place on April 30 at the Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Mon...
Sandast: Luxury Leather Goods, Made in L.A.
Behind a glass window, trained workers can be seen polishing the edges of a leather belt using an antique machine and hand-painting precisely cut leather arrowhead shapes that will be definin...
Woodbury University’s Modern Mix
Downtown L.A.’s Millennium Biltmore Hotel was a fashionable place to be when students, faculty, sponsors and members of the fashion community turned out for Woodbury University’s 48th...
FGI-LA Talks Fashion and Red-Carpet Style
The conversation was lively, and the quips were fast and furious at
Copious Bases Online Shopping on Social, Not Storefront
One of the big challenges with buying goodsonline is not knowing who the seller is, according to Jim Rose, founder andchief executive officer of the San Francisco startup Copious. ...
Jack O’Neill Collection: Surf Threads for 30-Somethings
Though a core target demographic for O'Neill clothing is teenagers and young 20-something-year-olds, the majority of the employees working at the brand probably do not fall into the ...
Chaser T-Shirts Evolve to Women’s Collection
“Almost no one buys our T-shirts because they are a Grateful Dead fan,” said Hadi Salem, chief executive officer of Chaser. The Los Angeles–based brand has mo...
Oscar de la Renta Returns to The Colleagues’ Fund-Raiser
Who: The Colleagues...
’The Other by Cheryl Koo’ Bows
Designer Cheryl Koo produced the first fashion show for The Other by Cheryl Koo, her art-inspired line, March 21 at Kesspro Studios in downtown Los Angeles. The runway show...
Mischa Barton: From Style Inspiration to Fashion Designer
Mischa Barton’s fashion style has been an obsession with celebrity magazines, and she has critiqued other people’s clothing choices as a guest on E! Entertainment’s “Fashion Pol...
Lectra and WGSN Partner to Bring Fashion Trends and Design Development Together
French technology solutions provider Lectra and London-headquartered online trend-analysis service WGSN have formed a new global partnership aimed at bridging the gap between fashion...
Barbara Fields’ Forecast for Fall ’12
Metallic shirts and sweaters, sequins, animal prints, boyfriend jackets, and body-hugging contour dresses are just some of the predicted “million-dollar items” for Fall and Spri...
