L.A. Fashion Week Spring '08: Louis Verdad
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L.A. Fashion Week Spring '08: Bohemian Society
Bohemian Society designer Victor Wilde dubbed his Spring ’08 collection “Violent Playground”...
Pooltradeshow on the Move
After occupying a tent in a parking lot in Las Vegas, the Pooltradeshow is moving to firmer ground for next February’s MAGIC Marketplace....
L.A. Fashion Week Spring '08: What's Next
Los Angeles Fashion Week kicked off with a series of independent runway shows under the BoxEight banner, Gen Art’s Fresh Faces in Fashion and Merce...
Tapping Into Tech With ApparelMagic's John Murphy
The business side of the apparel business— fulfilling orders, tracking materials and inventory, and handling processes such as EDI—is an area often overlooked by start-up companies and new designers who...
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...
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: Gary Harvey
Gary Harvey’s twin muses are the beauty of a woman’s torsohellip;and garbage. He mixed the two to create a high fashion...
Zainab: Top Fashion by Appointment Only
If retail is supposed to be like theater, or cinema, if you will, then Zainab Sumu aims to give her clients an exclusive personal screening....
L.A. Fashion Week Spring '08: Cosa Nostra
Los Angeles designer
Paul Frank Culls Workforce, Welcomes New Investors
For the first time in its 10-year history, Paul Frank Industries has had to lay off staff members....
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...
Kellwood Rejects SunCap's Offer
The board of directors of St. Louis–based manufacturer Kellwood Co. rejected an unsolicited proposal from Capital Securities Group LLC to purchase Kellwood for $21 per share. The board, on the advice of independent fi...
Counterfeiter Gets 57 Months
A U.S. district judge sentenced New York resident Abbas Chouman to 57 months in prison on one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. Chouman was ordered to forfeit the $7 million he re...
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...
