Plus-Size Gets Focused on Fashion
The plus-size market is getting a long overdue injection of fashion—thanks to emerging designers such as Santa Ana, Calif.–based Jessica Svoboda, who is among a handful of labels bringing the category a...
FIDM Students Get a Taste of Real-World Manufacturing
Preparing the next generation of apparel designers and merchandisers for the real world of the global apparel business has been a challenge for educators, but administrators at the F...
Designer Sees a Shift in Shirts
Tanks, tees and beaters have been riding high with the denim wave, but designer Isabel Sokiryansky is putting her stock in blouses....
Tuff Gong Finds Denim Revelation
The message of the late reggae star Bob Marley will live on through music—and fashion....
L.A. by Design
Port of Los Angeles to celebrate centennial with help from L.A.’s fashion community...
Forth & Towne in L.A
San Francisco–based retail giant Gap Inc. announced plans to open three Forth & Towne stores in the Los Angeles area by fall: at the Westfield Century City Shopping Center, the Oaks Shopping Center...
New Fashion College Focuses on Couture
Apparel designer and manufacturer Sonia Ete is bringing the fine art of couture to Southern California via her Academy of Couture Art, which bowed recently at the Pacific De...
Vintage Retailer Offers Own Line of Classics
Last June, Shareen Mitchell, owner of vintage treasure trove Shareen Downtown, decided to make a classic shirtdress to entice her loyal vintage shoppers....
European Consolidation
French luxury department store Printemps will soon have an Italian owner. The Paris-based corporation PPR, owner of luxury firm Gucci, announced it would sell its 17-store Printemps chain to the chair...
C&C Co-Founder Exits Company
Cheyann Benedict, who co-founded the widely popular Los Angeles T-shirt company C&C California, has left the company a little more than one year after it was purchased by Liz Cla...
New Generation Updates RedHorse
New Generation Computing Inc. has been busy. The Miami Lakes, Fla., firm, which develops sourcing and supply chain management software, released an updated version of RedHorse, its e...
Palm Springs Mall Set for Redevelopment
Orange County, Calif.–based Hopkins Real Estate Group, which closed escrow June 7 on the Palm Springs Mall, has big plans for the 315,000-square-foot center...
Ogle Me This, Ogle Me That
Los Angeles–based designer Avril Ozen thinks women can never have too many T-shirts. After years of designing printed tees for her Language Los Angeles line, Ozen has launched Ogle, a line o...
Fed Sells L&T
Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores will sell the upscale Lord & Taylor department store chain to a property development firm for nearly $1.2 billion. NRDC Equity Partners LLC, based in Purchase,...
Blue Jeans Company Acquires Retail Chain
Blue Holdings Inc., the blue jeans maker in Commerce, Calif., is getting into the retail business in a big-time way....
