Los Angeles Fashion Week Spring '05: 2 B Free
There is no sibling rivalry between the Benaroch brothers—Yves, 24, and Cedric, 23— who grew up in Los Angeles. The two work well together to create their line, 2 B Free, which is three parts s...
Los Angeles Fashion Week Spring '05: Saja
Saja designer Yoo Lee is best known for her ’20s- and ’30s-inspired pieces in light, airy chiffon with a smattering of beaded trim. For her first...
Kellwood's Cash
Kellwood may be on the hunt for new lines. The St. Louis– based company recently announced the completion of a $400 million unsecured credit facility. Funds have been earmarked for working capital and ...
Joni Blair Founder Norman Blau Dies
Norman Blau, founder of Joni Blair of California Inc., passed away on Oct. 8 in Montecito, Calif., after a brief illness. He was 83....
Fund-raising Gala Set for Fashion Museum
The Museum of Fashion Designers and Creators (MODAC) will host a fund-raising gala on Dec. 4 at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles....
West Hollywood's Undercover
Veteran retailer Adam Schaffer closed his 12-year-old boutique Undercover Fashions last month at the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, Calif., and consolidate...
Mood Light Despite Gray Skies at L.A. Textile Show
Neither rain nor fast-approaching fashion and market weeks kept designers and piece-goods buyers from turning out at the Los Angeles International Textile Show, held Oct. 18–20 at the...
That's Entertainment
Apparel companies cross into entertainment—to varying degrees of success ...
Mr. Hadar's Movable Store
If there’s one thing that Lorenzo Hadar has learned from his 20 years of keeping shop at chi-chi Sunset Plaza in West Hollywood, Calif., it’s that anything is possible....
California Manufacturing Outpaces the Nation
California’s manufacturing companies reported that production, new orders and employment grew in the third quarter of this year over the previous quarter....
New Gift Sourcing Show Coming to L.A.
Sources L.A.—an annual trade show geared toward gift industry importers, distributors and volume buyers—will debut Jan. 21–24, 2006, at the Los Angeles Convention Center....
CMC Lifts Curtain on Second Floor
Los Angeles International Textile Show visitors along with prospective and existing California Market Center tenants glimpsed the building’s new updated/ contemporary apparel...
New E-Tailer Focuses on L.A. Designers
Label Los Angeles, a new online shopping resource specializing in apparel from Los Angeles–based designers, has debuted at
Retailers Save Time, Money With EDI
The bars and lines of the Universal Product Code (UPC) and the e-mail-like network of electronic data interchange (EDI) are becoming the uniform language of retailing, but how does one learn this way ...
Designers, Otis Students Compete in 'Draw Down'
Fashion design students from the Otis College of Art & Design and designers Eduardo Lucero, Ann Field, Susan Zarate and Gus de Guzman will be ...
