Macy's West Settlement
San Francisco–based Macy’s West Inc., the West Coast division of the Federated Department Store chain, announced it has reached a settlement with the district attorneys’ offices in Los Angeles, Marin, Shasta and Sonoma ...
Juicy Couture Debuts First Store
Juicy Couture will open its first retail store in October, according to Paul R. Charron, chairman and chief executive of Liz Claiborne Inc., which owns the Arleta, Calif.–bas...
Europe's Increasing Tariffs Challenge U.S. Apparel Makers
Shortly after Randa Allen began her contemporary sportswear line, Notice Inc., the Los Angeles designer started exporting to Europe....
Film & Fashion
The Beverly Hills Film Festival showcased Los Angeles–based line Szulika on May 6 at Joya. Szulika designer Monica Osorio showed her Spring 2004 line, as well as a preview of her Fall/Winter 2004 colle...
Online Sales Exceed $100 Billion
E-tailers garnered more than $100 billion in sales in 2003, according to a joint study between the National Retail Federation’s Shop.org division and Forrester Research Inc. The annual report, titled...
Sea to Open Showroom at FIG Dallas
Los Angeles–based sales agency Sea will open a showroom next month at the new Fashion Industry Gallery in Dallas....
Retailer Makes Short Fashionable
Men come in all shapes and sizes, but the same cannot be said about suits....
Grand Avenue Redevelopment Narrowed to Two Finalists
The job of developing more than 3.2 million square feet of real estate neighboring the Walt Disney Concert Hall into apartments, retail spaces, offices and a 16-acre public park may...
New Reality Show Seeks Fashion Designers
Reality television will turn to the fashion industry this fall. Miramax Television, the company behind “Project Greenlight,” is teaming up with the Bravo netwo...
Dress For Success Impresses With New Retail Store
Dress For Success Los Angeles exists to help homeless women find a new start by giving them office suits for job interviews. When the nonprofit organization’s grant funding dropped by 50 percent this ...
Tee Party: C&C Designers Drop In at FBI
For more than a year, C&C California designers Claire Stansfield and Cheyann Benedict have enticed buyers and consumers with ultra-soft and colorful basic T-shirts designed to be layered ...
Zara Opens Two Stores in Southern California
Spanish fashion giant Zara has set its sights on California....
Wet Seal Tries Reality Marketing
Reality television stars regularly appear on the covers of celebrity magazines, and The Wet Seal Inc. hopes its new reality marketing campaign will capture the attention of America’s teenagers...
FedEx Raises Rate
The Memphis, Tenn.–based FedEx Corp. announced a general rate increase of 5.9 percent on interstate and intrastate shipments and on some shipments between the United States, Mexico and Canada. The comp...
Regional Sourcing, Technology Draw Interest at SPESA
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—Fabric companies and apparel manufacturers that congregated at the Miami Beach Convention Center for the May 18–20 run of Material...
