Ports Preparing for Cargo Push as China Exports Grow
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., used to be known as the places you didn’t want to send your cargo if you needed it in a hurry. All that changed in 2005 when the ports extended their ho...
Ferragamo Hits the Walk of Fame
Upscale footwear, accessories and apparel maker Salvatore Ferragamo will be this year’s honoree at the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style Awards, hosted by the city of Beverly Hills a...
Freshjive Girls: Anything but Frilly
After several years, Los Angeles–based streetwear company Freshjive is reintroducing Freshjive Girls for Fall 2006. Keeping the core streetwear look of its men’s line, the girls’ collection is consistent with the company...
Sports to Sportswear
The next big thing in fashion could be performance fabrics...
Paris Blues Names New President
For more than 20 years, Jose Quant, who founded denim manufacturer Paris Blues Inc., has been the company’s president....
Fire Gets New Showrooms and Corporate Office
Fire, a Los Angeles–based juniors denim, dress and sportswear manufacturer, is in the middle of a bicoastal growth spurt. The brand, which sells in Nordstrom, Char...
Feng Shui Tee
DAILY DOSE: The Feng Shui Tee brings the Chinese practice of living in harmony with the elements to the everyday wardrobe. Paschal Jarmoune, who developed the T-shirt concept, worked...
Affliction: Graphics With a Vintage Edge
The graphics of Santa Ana, Calif.–based Affliction are hip and edgy—but they take their cues from vintage illustration styles, including hand-drawn etchings and engravings....
PacSun Exec Moves to Haggar
Joseph Harris, who was vice president of sourcing and product development at Pacific Sunwear of California in Anaheim, Calif., for nearly two years, has left to take a similar positi...
K-Swiss Communiqueacute;
Kids in Europe are communicating through the stripes on their K-Swiss shoes, according to the European distributor for Westlake Village, Calif.–based K-Swiss Inc. The company’s Stripe Shifter shoe style has five stripes on the...
Baby Boom at the CMC
Contemporary childrenswear helps fill California Market Center’s 6th floor ...
Gerber to Offer Sourcing Services
Tolland, Conn.–based Gerber Technology has teamed with Iselin, N.J.–based ecVision to provide global sourcing and collaboration applications for the apparel and textile industries....
Haute Handbags From the Bay Area
SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco is home to a wealth of independent handbag designers, ranging from well-versed industry veterans to enthusiastic newcomers....
L.A. Fashion Week Gearing Up for March
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios organizers have set March 19–23 as the dates for the Fall 2006 run of catwalk shows at Smashbox Studios in Culver City, Calif....
Pasadena Sisters Win Honors
The California-based designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy are among a handful of creators to win an Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation award for emerging designers....
