Holiday Shoppers to Take a Wait-and-See Attitude
Holiday shoppers will probably be spending about the same amount of money as last year, but they won’t be sprinting to the stores until later in the season, according to the latest holiday sur...
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Black Friday: First With Freebies
Christmas 2008 might shape up to be the season of the freebie.Mall owners and retailers gave potential consumers generous gifts on Black Friday, the traditional start of...
Trovata and Staying Alive Foundation Launch Charity Tee
What better way to celebrate a T-shirt that reads “Lovers Love Life” than an uplifting party with limitless cocktails and head-bobbing tunes? That’s how Trovata toasted the launch of its...
Affliction Beefs Up Exec Ranks, Announces Plans for Women's, Retail and Licensing
Seal Beach, Calif.–based menswear brand Affliction has announced big changes....
Blass N.Y. Closes
Bill Blass New York, the direct-sales luxury concept launched in 2006, closed and will liquidate its assets. The company, which ma...
Manufacturers Get Creative to Weather Economic Lean Times
While retailers toss up holiday sale signs and heavily promote their online storefronts in an effort to capture skittish shoppers, manufacturers are tackling their own set of challenges. Buyers are co...
Macy's Remodeled Pasadena Store
After being shuttered for seven months, the Macy’s store at 401 S. Lake Ave. in Pasadena, Calif., reopened on Nov. 21 with an updated take on the building, which was constructed in 1947. ...
Mickey Mouse Gets Fashionable, Goes Street
Mickey Mouse turned 80 on Nov. 18, the anniversary of the 1928 release of the pop-culture icon’s first cartoon, “Steamboat Willie,” and the octogenarian received a serious birthd...
Monitoring of Vietnamese Apparel Imports Ends
Ever since Vietnam joined the World Trade Organization in early 2007, the Bush administration has been keeping a watchful eye on apparel imports from that country. That is about to end....
American Apparel, M.B.
Los Angeles–based manufacturer and retailer American Apparel opened a store at the Metlox Center in Manhattan Beach on Nov....
Fair-Trade Store Opens for the Holidays
In the heart of the Los Angeles Fashion District, a pop-up store featuring only items made in fair-trade cooperatives or by local artisans will be offering holiday gifts....
Tech Companies Aim to Provide Solutions to Customs' '10 Plus 2' Law
Apparel importers are worried that a new security regulation proposed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and aimed at improving security for incoming cargo will delay the process of getting goods t...
Navigating Complex E.U. Regulation as Dec. 1 Deadline Looms for REACH
In the European Union, signs, billboards and media warn industry about the proximity of the first major deadline for REACH. The United Kingdom’s public announcement on REACH frankly reminds everyone: “N...
Kahn Back at The Wet Seal
Foothill Ranch–based The Wet Seal Inc. reappointed Harold Kahn to its board of directors. In October, Kahn resigned from th...
