OptiTex Breaks Into Home-Sewing Market
Software supplier OptiTex is entering the home-sewing market. Home sewing is fueled by independent fashion designers and hobbyists and is considered to be one of the fastest-growing segments ...
L.A. Fashion Week Spring '08: Cosa Nostra
Los Angeles designer
L.A. Fashion Week Spring '08: 2B Free
2B Free traded in its traditional matching sweat-suit sets for sexier 1980s leggings and hooded mini-dresses at its...
Gerber CAD Training at FBI
Incubator agency Fashion Business Inc. is offering a six-week course in pattern design using Gerber Technology’s Accumark 8.2 system Oct. 27–Dec. 1 at the FBI Resourc...
L.A. Fashion Week Spring '08: Sue Wong
Sue Wong looked to Modern Art masters such as Miro, Matisse and Calder to create part of her
L.A. Fashion Week Spring '08: Gen Art
Gen Art’s “Fresh Faces in Fashion” show, staged Oct. 13 at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Lo...
D.C. for Skechers
Manhattan Beach–based footwear maker Skechers signed an 11-year lease for a 1.8 million-square-foot distribution center in Rancho Belago, a new community in California’s Inland Empire, east of Los Angeles. HF L...
L.A. Fashion Week Spring '08: Louis Verdad
BoxEight hosted Fashion Week favorite
L.A. Fashion Week Spring '08: J'aime Pressley
For more than three years, J’Aime Collection, a clothing label owned by actor and designer Jaime Pressley, produced knits and dresses for contemporary boutiques. On Oct. 15, J’Aime deb...
Dreamgirl Moves to Online Sales
Los Angeles–based lingerie brand Dreamgirl International is installing a new Internet-based software system that will enable its retailers and sales agents to place orders, check inventories a...
L.A. Fashion Week Spring '08: Bohemian Society
Bohemian Society designer Victor Wilde dubbed his Spring ’08 collection “Violent Playground”...
E-Portfolios: The Latest Thing on College Campuses
A San Francisco software company is helping fashion college administrators, instructors and students collaborate with each other more quickly and efficiently—and electronically. The c...
Lectra Launches Education Initiative
Lectra has launched an education initiative to create a better-skilled work force by teaming up with fashion colleges around the world and giving them easier access to the company’s technology...
L.A. Fashion Week Spring '08: Elsie Katz Couture
Designer Donna Baxter of
L.A. Fashion Week Spring '08: Joseph Domingo
Joseph Domingo cut hemlines shorter and dipped V-necks lower than his usual for his
