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....
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....
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...
Trance Debuts in Manhattan Beach
David Oliver and partner Susan Lee, formerly of the Ames Ladies Wear chain of boutiques, debuted their newest retail concept since selling the Ames stores to Da-Rue of California in ...
Fire on Fire With Knits
Los Angeles–based juniors denim and sportswear maker Fire saw its business nearly double from $15 million in 2005 to $25 million in 2006, said the company’s president, Andrew Strasmore....
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...
New Retail Chain
High-end denim company 7 For All Mankind is getting ready to expand into the retail world with its own chain of stores. To do this, the company recently hired Aaron Battista as its vice president of retail, e...
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...
Creativity Pays Off
Creative industries that churn out fashion, art and movies are major economic powerhouses in Los Angeles....
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...
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...
New York Shows Give Buyers the Scoop on Trends
NEW YORK—Quality matters. That was the general theme for buyers who converged on the Big Apple for the women’s contemporary and designer trade shows held Feb. 18–22....
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...
