Fashion Week Debuts
Mike Vensel, publisher of Los Angeles–based Kitten magazine, is organizing Kitten Fashion Week March 15–17 at The Standard Downtown LA...
Moda Manhattan Joins Vegas Lineup
Add another trade show to the lineup in Las Vegas next August....
Premire Vision Draws a Crowd Despite Overlap With N.Y. Shows
PARIS—There was plenty to see at the Feb. 20–23 run of Premiegrave;re Vision Pluriel, the umbrella name for the five fabric and fiber exhibitions held at Parc d’Expositions in Paris Nor...
Gap Shutters Forth & Towne
Gap Inc. hoped to give baby-boom women extra fashion choices with its retail division Forth & Towne. But after a mere 18 months of business, the San Francisco–based specialty store giant p...
Western Hemisphere Manufacturers to Meet in California
The American Apparel Producers’ Network, an Atlanta-based nonprofit group of manufacturers that make clothing in the Western Hemisphere, is holding one of its geographic summits on the West Co...
Catwalk Bling
For the fifth year in a row, Swarovski, the Austrian purveyor of cut crystals, has brought couture jewelry, drama, celebrities and a catwalk show together for its Runway Rocks event....
Creativity Pays Off
Creative industries that churn out fashion, art and movies are major economic powerhouses in Los Angeles....
P.G.D. Style
Melissa Biggs started her Los Angeles–based company, P.G.D. Style, to satisfy her obsessive desire for the perfect T-shirt....
Getting Hyper
As if Wal-Mart Stores Inc. isn’t big enough, the world’s largest retailer, based in Bentonville, Ark., is buying 35 percent of the company that operates a chain of hypermarkets in China. Wal-Mart announced an a...
Rising Rents Threaten Robertson's Identity
Robertson Boulevard, a fashionable Los Angeles shopping destination known for its independent streak of boutiques that attract a celebrity crowd, is taking on a corporate air that could threaten its u...
Dow Introduces Stretch Fiber for Denim
PARIS—Dow Fiber Solutions, a division of Midland, Mich.–based Dow Chemical Co., introduced a new denim-specific stretch fiber during the recent Expofil trade show, he...
Name Game
Now that Federated Department Stores Inc. is one big, happy family after acquiring the May Co. in 2005, its board of directors wants to change the corporate name to Macy’s Group Inc. Shareholders will be asked to approve the new name at an annual sh...
William Rast, People's Liberation Expand Offerings
Danny Guez, the man behind the denim-based People’s Liberation contemporary brand and a partner in singer Justin Timberlake’s William Rast brand, is in a make-over mood....
No Brands Here
The magic of a brand name often drives people to boutique cash registers. But others are interested more in style and less in names, according to Margaret Dietl, co-owner of the popular outlet boutiq...
New Set of Laws Affects Employers
Most employers know that a new state minimum wage went into effect at the beginning of the year. But many are unaware of a host of other new but more obscure regulations that are now on the books....
