Political Style
Retailer and “Sex and the City” designer Patricia Field is working with Phat Farm creator Russell Simmons to launch a campaign encouraging voter participation with a line of T-shirts featuring ...
Police Drama Briefly Upstages Market
A touch of drama right out of a Keystone Kops caper punctuated Los Angeles Market Week when calls about a possible bank robbery in progress sent a passel of police officers to the Fa...
Optimism High at Fall II/Holiday Market in L.A.
Buyers were upbeat and ready to open their wallets for trendy items for Holiday at the Fall II/Holiday 2004 Los Angeles Market Week, which ran Ju...
Hot Topic Gets New Warehouse
City of Industry, Calif.–based specialty retailer Hot Topic Inc. chose a site near Nashville, Tenn., for its national distribution center, which will be completed in about a year. The...
California Labels Up for Dallas Fashion Awards
A number of West Coast brands are among 45 companies named as finalists for the 29th annual Dallas Fashion Awards....
Taking Interest
The Federal Reserve announced plans to stave off inflation by raising interest rates in the coming year. Analysts anticipate the Fed will institute a rate hike at the next policy meeting, which will t...
CFDA Fetes Latest Honorees
Carolina Herrera was named womenswear designer of the year and Sean Combs’ Sean Jean label landed the menswear award at the Council of Fashion Designers of America Fashion ...
Apparel Firms Look Far and Beyond for New Talent
Finding the right people to run apparel companies in the new economy has forced the apparel industry to adopt a new paradigm....
Target Buys Into Markdown Optimizer
Target Corp. is jumping into the merchandise optimization arena. The nation’s second largest general merchandise retailer is implementing artificial intelligence software that helps it with it...
Lingerie Makers Forego Wires, Straps and Traditional Silhouettes
Strapless, backless, seamless and wireless, NuBrais a patented self-adhesive silicone bra launched two years ago and is carried in boutiques such as Fred Segal Santa Monica, as well ...
Rising Sum: Anime-Inspired Graphics Fuel Specialty Lines
“Character driven” is a term usually bandied about in Hollywood, but at Cosmic Debris it also describes a growing apparel line. Emily the S...
Sabrina Showroom
Cooper Design SpaceLobby D(213) 670-0044 ...
Levi's Closures
San Francisco–based Levi Strauss & Co. announced plans to close two sewing factories in Spain as part of the company’s efforts to save money by shifting from companyowned production facilities to outside co...
Marshall Fields Sale
Minneapolis-based discounter Target announced plans to sell department store Marshall Fields and nine Midwestern Mervyn’s stores to St. Louis–based May Company for $3.24 billion in cash. The sale adds 62 Marsha...
Lectra to Acquire Lacent Technologies
Paris-based technology supplier Lectra has reached an agreement to acquire Canadian cutting equipment manufacturer Lacent Technologies for an undisclosed sum....
