L.A. Fashion Week Spring '08: Beach Bunny Swimwear
Swimwear was in scarce supply on the runway this season, but Angie Chittenden of Newport Beach, Calif.–based...
L.A. Fashion Awards Turns 3
The Los Angeles Fashion Awards hosted its third annual awards event celebrating Los Angeles designers, manufacturers and retailers on Oct. 26 at the historic Orpheum Theatre in downt...
L.A. Fashion Week Spring '08: Moda Made in Italy
Claudio Montias made an audacious debut at Milan Fashion Week on Sept. 23. One month later, he and three other Italian designers made something of a repeat performance at South Coast Plaza, the luxury...
Organic Cotton Market Reaches $1 Billion
Organic Exchange, a Berkeley, Calif.–based organization focusing on increasing the production and use of organically grown fibers such as cotton, announced the global organic cotton market top...
Pop-Up Retail
Anchor Blue is experimenting with a new retail concept called La La Land. The chain, based in Ontario, is opening a pop-up store on Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade on Nov. 17, stocking affordable but trendy clot...
Rusty Gets New Design Head, Continues Evolution
When Irvine, Calif.–based manufacturer La Jolla Group acquired the license in August to produce Rusty apparel, it promised to reinvent the brand....
New Money Man
Panglobal Brands, a new Los Angeles apparel company launching several juniors and contemporary lines, has named Charles Lesser as its chief financial officer. Lesser comes from Los Angeles–based blue-jeans com...
L.A. Fashion Week Spring '08: Jesse Kamm
Fashion and film merged for the debut of
Fires May Boost Retail in Southern California
If 2003 is any indication, brush fires could be good for retailers....
New Media & New Age Marketing Panel at FIDM
The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising examined the changing face of new media when it hosted its 10th annual entertainment panel on Oct. 24, titled “New Media...
L.A. Fashion Week Spring '08: Yana K.
Longtime Smashbox Studios devotee Yana Khromova of Yana K. moved her
St. John Signs Licensing Deal
Luxury knitwear company St. John, based in Irvine, Calif., has signed a multi-year licensing agreement with an Italian company to make St. John sunglasses and prescriptioneyeglass frames....
L.A. Fashion Week Spring '08: Maria Bianca Nero
After a four-year absence, the Maria Bianca Nero label returned to the catwalk Oct. 26 with a
L.A. Fashion Week Spring '08: Single After Eight
After appearing on reality show “Project Runway” in 2005, designer Andrae Gonzalo joked he was famous in fashion, but he did not have a label to call his own. That story changed on Oct. ...
Quiksilver Sheds Golf Division
Surfwear maker Quiksilver Inc. said it plans to sell its Cleveland Golf unit to a Japanese company for $132.5 million by early 2008....
