CAST Sale Nets $13k
All the proceeds from a sample sale organized by California Apparel News and the Cooper Design Space will be donated to the Coalition Against Slavery and Trafficking, a nonp...
Cone Denim Opens in Nicaragua
International Textile Group, the Greensboro, N.C.–based parent company of Cone Denim, opened a new facility near Managua, Nicaragua....
New Online Sourcing Resource for Small Companies
Apparel and textile companies now have an online sourcing resource designed especially for small- to mid-size companies....
The Challenging World of Sourcing: A Q&A With Liz Claiborne's Fritz Winans
Manufacturers are constantly revising their sourcing strategies, taking the temperature of economic and political conditions around the world to see how it affects their apparel and textile production...
ecoSkin: Chic and Green
Fashion-forward and environmentally friendly, newcomer ecoSkin is designed by industry veteran Sandy Skinner and produced in Los Angeles. Formerly, Skinne...
American Apparel Workers March for Immigration Reform
About 1,000 American Apparel workers participated in May Day marches in Los Angeles, joining thousands of others in a mostly peaceful demonstration for immigration reform and less policing by...
Akiko: Luxe Look
Southern California native and Otis College of Art + Design grad Akiko Yasuda designed for Poleci before launching her eponymous label in 2003. With a notably laid-back design aesthe...
Iraq Protest Shuts Down West Coast Ports
Longshore workers protesting the war in Iraq shuttered 29 West Coast ports when they didn’t show up for work on May 1....
Intimate Apparel Council, FIT Launch Professional Program
The Intimate Apparel Council and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York have teamed up to launch an education program to help intimate-apparel executives gain a leg up in th...
American Apparel Invests in Sustainable Cotton
American Apparel Inc. has joined the sustainable-cotton movement. ...
MAGIC Goes Green
Tradeshow giant MAGIC International will host a green section called Ecollection@MAGIC at the Aug. 25–27 run of the MAGIC Marketplace in Las Vegas....
Lessons to Be Learned to Source Wisely
Although the North American Free Trade Agreement, between the United States, Mexico and Canada, is the granddaddy of most of our free-trade agreements (FTAs), the textile portion of these treaties are different. Ther...
Weinbaum Leaves QST, Joins Creative Sourcing
Immediately after finalizing a deal for its West Coast business, Chicago-based QST Industries has parted ways with Los Angeles–based Vice President and board member Kenneth Weinbaum....
Modify: Surrealist Streetwear
After April 24, the Los Angeles–based artist Sonik Mercury put his mark on the Coachella Arts & Music Festival when he painted his science fiction–style graffiti look on t...
