White Boy Philanthropy
Los Angeles label White Boy has teamed with Academy Award-nominated actor Don Cheadle to create a T-shirt to raise money for victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita at the one-year anniversary of the Gulf Coast disast...
FBI Gets New Board Members
Six new members have been added to the board of Fashion Business Inc., the nonprofit organization in downtown Los Angeles that helps new designers and apparel companies grow their bu...
Lacroix Las Vegas
Paris couturier Christian Lacroix has opened his first U.S. store at the Forum Shops at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. The store carries the company’s ready-to-wear, accessories, swimwear, lingerie and j...
Beach Bums Promotes Buyer to Marketing, Product Chief
Beach Bums Inc. will vie for a higher public profile. On Aug. 10, the Anaheim, Calif.–based activewear retailer named Todd Kellogg as its director of marketing and product development. He had served a...
New Look May Give Jeans Brand New Life
Fashion brand FRx Future Prescription needed a doctor....
Denimhead: Jeans on the Brain
Former private-label blue jeans designer Jill Perilman has had denim on the brain for the last 20 years. Designing for brands at Tarrant Apparel Group and the Kellw...
Corona del Mar, Calif.- Rethinking 'Mayberry'
Corona del Mar is the address of $7 million homes—some of the most expensive real estate in California, according to property information company DataQuick. But Erica D. Thomas thought that th...
Tarrant Apparel Breaks Up With Another Licensor
Tarrant Apparel Group, the Los Angeles company that makes private-label and branded clothing for major retailers across the United States, said it paid $400,000 to terminate its licensing agr...
Bongo's New Jeans Deal
New York–based Iconix Brand Group Inc. has struck a new license agreement for its Bongo jeanswear brand with New York–based The Mamiye Group LLC. Iconix announced three other licensing agreements for Bo...
Mary-Kate, Ashley and Joanne
Dualstar Entertainment Group, the Los Angeles–based licensing company owned by Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen, has hired Joanne Wells as vice president of brand development for its Sprouse Bros. brand. Wells...
Tariff Rebates on Central American Goods Are Good to Go
A bill that would allow importers to receive tariff rebates on clothing imported from Central American countries this year was signed by President Bush on Aug. 17....
Marketing 101: Taking a Long View When Launching a New Brand
In the early stages of launching their brand, Chip and Pepper Foster had a problem most new designers can only dream of. They sold out their line on the opening day of a trade show....
Leyendecker: Conceptual But Wearable
There is not one ounce of fluff in Jessica Moss and Lisa Lamar’s short and sweet Leyendecker collection. Through ruthless editing, their debut line for Fall 2006 contained a handful of items t...
Limited CFO Retires
Ken Stevens, chief financial officer of Limited Brands, has announced plans to retire after five years with the Columbus, Ohio–based company. Martyn Redgrave, Limited’s chief administrative officer, wil...
Jones Sale Off
Jones Apparel Group Inc. is no longer for sale. After five months on the market, the New York–based company’s board of directors announced that the formal sale process had concluded, and it has decided ...
