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Saks Sale
Birmingham, Ala.–based retailer Saks Inc. completed the sale of its Proffitt’s/McRae’s department store business to Belk Inc. for $622 million plus the assumption of about $1 million in capitalized lease obligations and other liabiliti...
Angelique Building Sells for $1.24m
The building that houses the popular Angelique Cafeacute; in the Los Angeles Fashion District sold for $1.24 million to Los Angeles– based real estate firm DNR Bros., accordi...
Mario Vecchiarelli Suffers Stroke
Veteran apparel industry supplier Mario Vecchiarelli, co-founder of the Vecchiarelli Bros. supplies and notions store in Los Angeles, suffered a massive stroke this week and is not expected t...
Los Angeles Port Complex Skirts Shipping Delays
What a difference a year makes....
James Perse's Malibu Store Offers Simple Elegance
The guiding principle of James Perse’s fashion is simplicity, but his business got complicated in the last week. His fashion line is riding a wave of new retail activity....
Lexor Buys Jeantex
Jeantex Group Inc. announced that Lexor Holdings Inc. has acquired the outstanding shares of the Los Angeles manufacturer. Jeantex manufactures jeans for labels such as ABS, Blue Cult, Guess, Hurley, ...
Unique Knitwear Designer to Open Boutique
Coryn Madley got in the fashion business to design idiosyncratic knitwear in 2002. She will soon be able to add the vocation of retailer to her reacute;sumeacute; when she opens a 700-square-foot stor...
Swim Exec Koplin Joins Tommy Bahama Swim
Tommy Bahama, the 13-year-old lifestyle brand that tries to infuse tropical living into resort fashion, said it launched an in-house women’s swimwear division that is being led by the former p...
NPD Acquires STS
Port Washington, N.Y.–based consumer and retail research company The NPD Group has acquired STS Market Research, a fashion industry research firm based in Cambridge, Mass., and STS’ longitudinal research panel, AccuPanel, whic...
Rays Promotes Jodon for Body Glove
Irvine, Calif.–based Rays Apparel promoted Hollie Jodon to head designer of the company’s newly acquired Body Glove juniors sportswear division....
Brothers & Sisters to Receive Dallas Award
Brothers & Sisters Inc., which operates showrooms in Los Angeles and New York, will receive the Best of Scene award during the 30th Annual Dallas Fashion Awards, set for Oct. 29 ...
Contemporary Label Single Opens Melrose Boutique
Galina Sobolev opened a boutique to give a down-home feel to the exotic look of her label, Single....
Tech-Savvy Designers Are the Ticket in Hollywood
Andy Wilkes, owner of Syren apparel in Los Angeles, said he feels like a firefighter sometimes. At any moment, he may receive a phone call from a movie studio or costume designer asking him and his crew to c...
Rampage Winsat Webby Awards
Los Angeles–based Rampage Clothing Co. won a Webby Worthy award during the ninth annual Webby Awards, which honored the world’s best Web sites....
