L.A. Designer Seeks Award Recognition
For designers, placing their fashions in front of the right audience can be crucial. It’s important enough that Mickey Sills, founder of Los Angeles–based sleepwear label Scanty, signed up to g...
San Francisco Fashion Week '06: Dichotomy
This was the debut collection of designer Teresa Romero, an Oakland resident who based her line on a contradiction of elements within a single piece. The line started out with a dark color palette of mostly b...
San Francisco Fashion Week '06: Anazara
Croatia-born Ana Paunovic launched her swimwear line in her homeland in 2003 and has finally brought it to the United States. Her mostly two-piece creations, made out of Lycra and nylon, come in brigh...
San Francisco Fashion Week 2006: Wee Scotty
Childrenswear designer Lynne Gallagher, who has a shop on San Francisco’s Union Street, went all out in her Spring 2007 collection, which embraced fashions from almost every era from the 1900s and into...
San Francisco Fashion Week 2006: Emerging Stars
Fifteen fashion students from The Art Institute of California–San Francisco, the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in San Francisco, ...
San Francisco Fashion Week '06: HisByHer
Clean, simple lines with a 1930s flair was the idea behind the HisByHer’s Spring 2007 collection, which had unique accents to spice it up....
San Francisco Fashion Week '06: Kelly B.
Designer Kelly Barry has hopped on the natural-fabric bandwagon to clothe the contemporary woman in soft bamboo and organic cotton jerseys shaped into dresses, hooded tunics and kimo...
Textile Copyright Case Has Document Problem
L.A. Printex Industries Inc., a fabric design house and printer that has filed at least 29 court cases in nearly three years accusing fabric printers, clothing manufacturers and retailers of ...
San Francisco Fashion Week '06: Pink Elf
Designer Kaushie Adiseshan had style and subtle elegance in mind when she developed her Spring 2007 collection, but she didn’t skimp on color and glamour. Adiseshan, whose roots are in Bombay, India, t...
San Francisco Fashion Week '06: Besnik
Drama and skimpy looks are what Albania-born Besnik is all about. The 30-year-old designer, who has lived in this country for 19 years, formed metallic fabrics into baby-doll dresses tied up with a big bow, w...
San Francisco Fashion Week 2006: Lily Samii
Designer Lily Samii’s background is in French dressmaking, but her skills were enhanced even more by apprenticing with fabled Hollywood designer Edith Head and noted couturier James Galanos. The result is a so...
San Francisco Fashion Week '06: Gypsy and Loc
Husband and wife team Gypsy Rader and Loiuml;c Massias started their career designing womenswear, but when they evolved into men’s casual wear, they knew they had a winner and dropped women’s fashions...
Denim Lady
The Warnaco Group Inc., the New York–based company that makes sportswear, bras and swimsuits, has hired Patricia Royak as president of its Calvin Klein Jeans division. The veteran apparel executive will be ove...
San Francisco Fashion Week '06: Donna Lou
Before creating her own line, designer Amanda Lefebre was designing clothes for the Los Angeles label Bat’s Daughter for a little more than two years. Living in Santa Cruz, C...
San Francisco Fashion Week Spotlights Couture Creations and New Designers
A new location marked the third season for San Francisco Fashion Week, organized to bring more awareness to Bay Area designers....
