QST Opens Facilities in Eastern Europe, North Africa
QST Industries, the Chicago-based interlining and apparel-component company, is opening two new European facilities in a bid to give its customers producing in Europe greater access to QST pr...
Calvin's Licensed Performance
Phillips–Van Heusen Corp. has struck a strategic licensing agreement with G-III Apparel Group Ltd. for a new women’s performance apparel line under the Calvin Klein brand, a wholly owned subsidiary of PVH. The athletic- and performance-wear line is g...
Costa Mesa: The Closet Opens in Growing Indie Retail Scene
With luxury retail centers South Coast Plaza and Fashion Island only a few minutes’ drive away, people in Costa Mesa, Calif., and the adjacent cit...
ASR Goes Digital
Come January, the Action Sports Retailer Trade Expo in San Diego will take on a distinctively high-tech flair. As part of its move toward a more eco-friendly and u...
Salary Boost
Starting Jan. 1, California’s minimum wage hits $8 an hour, a 6.7 percent increase from the previous minimum wage of $7.50. Employees who are exempt from overtime pay now have their minimum monthly salary pegg...
2007 in Review
It was a year of both the mega-deal and the quiet merger. 7 For All Mankind sold for $775 million and American Apparel for $774 million, while Chicago menswear comp...
Plus-Size Designers Fill the Sizing Gap
Some of California’s plus-size designers are finding new opportunities beyond their target customers—and they are adjusting their sizing below traditional plus-size boundaries....
Lyon Mode City, Interfilire Move to Paris
The Lyon Mode City and Interfiliegrave;re trade shows are moving to Paris. ...
Success Tips
Retailers with well-stocked shelves and a customer-friendly return policy tended to fare better than other retailers during the holiday season, according to accounting firm KPMG. In a phone survey, the accounting firm noted that 76 percent ...
Big Blue
Cone Denim, the world’s largest denim producer, based in Greensboro, N.C., hopes to have its new denim plant in Nicaragua up and running some time in early 2008. Cone Denim recently announced it obtained a sev...
Revamped Vuitton Opens at Hollywood & Highland
The influence of French luxury-goods company Louis Vuitton might loom larger over Hollywood. On Nov. 21, it held an exclusive cocktail party to celebrate an expansion and remodeling ...
ENK Announces Acquisition of WSA
ENK International, the New York trade-show organizer whose shows include Fashion Coterie, Intermezzo ...
Major Apparel Importers' Association to Meet in Los Angeles
Key U.S. government officials who influence the apparel and textile import market will be speaking at a one-day meeting in Los Angeles organized by the United States Association of Importers ...
Watchful Eye
Vietnamese apparel manufacturers have hired a U.S. law firm to help them deal with any antidumping charges brought by the U.S. government in 2008. Sidley Austin LLP, a worldwide law firm headquartered in Chicago, wil...
TALA's Crowded House
About 120 children spilled into the California Market Center Fashion Theater for the Textile Association of Los Angeles’ annual holiday party....
