FIDM to Expand Downtown Campus
Administrators at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising’s downtown Los Angeles campus signed a 10-year lease for $2.3 million as part of a move to expand classroom facilities....
Texas Holdings Co. Acquires Footwear Labels
Richardson, Texas–based holding company Titan Global Holdings Inc. has purchased the majority of assets of Santa Barbara, Calif.–based Global Brand Marketing Inc. (GB...
L.A. Royalty
BASIC INSTINCT: In contrast to the allover prints and loud graphics that adorn men’s T-shirts, L.A. Royalty’s tees and basic jeans have a pared-down aesthetic “with a slight edg...
Macy's Shutters 9
Cincinnati-based department-store giant Macy’s Inc. will close nine underperforming stores in Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah. All nine stores were acquired by Macy’s when the company...
Organic Goes Home
Boca Raton, Fla.–based organic apparel brand Under the Canopy is launching a new home division called Canopy. The launch will include sheets, blankets, duvets, decorative pillows and towels made from 1...
Gold Among the Influential 25
Designer Jared Gold, founder and senior designer of the Black Chandelier label and retail chain, was named among the top 25 “cultural power brokers” in Utah by the Salt Lake T...
StyleHive Acquires StyleDiary
San Francisco–based StyleHive (
The Last Hurrah for Chinese Apparel Quotas?
In the U.S. apparel business, all eyes are on Europe....
Le Sang des Betes: Bloody Beautiful
Like a mystic seeing heavenly visions, Trang Chau saw the human form in the vaulted ceilings of gothic cathedrals. Using just a compass and pad of paper, she began drawing arcs and circles, and soon t...
Runway Revelry
New Year’s revelers rang in the new year with a Bebe Sport runway show held at an exclusive party in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills. For more from the show,...
Calvin Klein Opens First California Store at Beverly Center
Calvin Klein Inc. will be opening a string of stores in the United States in 2008, and Southern California was one of the first stops for the label. A 10,000-square-foot Calvin Klein...
Warnaco Sells Three Key Swim Brands
New York–based apparel giant The Warnaco Group has announced the sale of the Anne Cole, Cole of California and Catalina swim brands to the New Yo...
Jimmy Au Collection: Not Short on Style
Since the 1970s, Jimmy Au has been one of the secrets of a little-known category of red-carpet fashions. For the past year, Au claimed some of the spotlight for himself with the debut of the ...
Stocks Distributed to American Apparel Employees
Christmas comes a tad late for American Apparel Inc. employees this year, but it comes with a bang....
Holiday 2007: E-Commerce and Menswear Sales Up
The 2007 holiday retail season was forecasted to be slow, but more consumers opened their wallets in the days leading up to Christmas, according to retail analysts....
