Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim/Cruise 2009: Diesel

Diesel kicked off Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim with a

Hot Topic Exec Joins Wet Seal

Hot Topic’s chief merchandising officer, Maria Comfort, left the music-influenced mall retailer on July 31 to oversee merchandising for juniors chain The Wet Seal Inc....

Comerica Relocates in Downtown Los Angeles

Comerica Bank has leased a 27,000-square-foot space at 601 Figueroa St., where it will house a ground-floor banking center and a 12th-floor commercial office....

Kane, Blue Tattoo Deal Falls Through

Womenswear manufacturer Karen Kane has decided not to buy Los Angeles denim maker Blue Tattoo after a deal was announced one month ago....

Interns Fecirc;ted at YMA Scholarship Event

Seven Californians were among the 60 fashion students who landed coveted internships with high-profile fashion companies this summer through the YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund. Otis School of Design students Aimee Santos, Sin Yi

Start-Up Denim Retailer Forecasts 200-Store Rollout

Jeanomix sees gold in denim bars....

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swimshy;/Cruise 2009: Ed Hardy

Ostensibly an Ed Hardy presentation, the July 19

E-tail Site Specializes in Shirting

Benicia, Calif.–based Kingdom Fashion Management Inc. has launched

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim/Cruise 2009: Belusso

“Project Runway” alum Kirsten Sarkisian presented her

Mas Looking to Pioneer Silverlake Fashion Street

On any given day, there are cars speeding past the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Maltman Avenue in Los Angeles’ Silverlake neighborhood. But Shannon Benedetti is betting that motorists will slow down and take...

Catalog Purchase

New York–based private-equity fund Monomoy Capital Partners L.P. purchased the assets and operations of Redcats USA’s Missy Group of catalog and Internet retail from the Redcats Group Inc., a subsidiary of French congl...

Kmart's Online Ad Contest

Kmart, the subsidiary of Hoffman Estates, Ill.–based Sears Holdings Corp., is inviting “junior fashionistas” to create their own Kmart commercial in a promotion for new the ABC reality show...

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim/Cruise 2009: Pistol Panties

Glamour, pop colors and retro kitsch were the look of Deborah Fleming’s “Nights in Deauville” collection. The London-based designer presented her art deco–inspired collection on July 20 at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swi...

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swimshy;/Cruise 2009: Tommy Bahama

Nautical blues and whites, check. Safari-inspired spots and stripes, check. Tropical floral prints, check. With its July 18 show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim at The Raleigh hotel,...

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swimshy;/Cruise 2009: Vix

Vix Swimwear celebrated 10 years of fashion with the debut of its