Wet Seal Settles AB633 Suit
The Wet Seal Inc. agreed to pay $90,000 this week to settle a suit four garment workers brought against the Foothill Ranch, Calif.–based retailer and Los Angeles–based DT Sewing, the W...
Rising Cotton Prices Don't Hinder Exhibitors at ISS
Despite concerns over rising cotton prices, garment and technology suppliers exhibiting at the Imprinted Sportswear Show, held Jan. 16–18 at the Long Beach Convention Center...
American Apparel's Healthy Business
Los Angeles–based blank T-shirt maker American Apparel is encouraging its 1,300 employees to be healthier while they work to be wealthier....
Agenda Returns to San Diego
Alternative apparel trade show Agenda, which debuted in San Diego last September to coincide with the resident Action Sports Retailer Trade Expo, held its second installat...
Cotton Talk
Trade opportunities for manufacturers, retailers and importers looking into sourcing production in Caribbean Basin Initiative, Andean and sub-Saharan countries will top the bill at the Cotton Sourcing Summit,...
FIDM Hosts Film Costume Exhibit
The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising will kick off its 12th annual “The Art of Motion Picture Costume Design” exhibit on Feb. 2 at the Museum Galleries in FIDM’s d...
LATV's Lopez in Chica
Los Angeles–based label Chica Inc. will feature LATV V-Jay Patricia Lopez in its Spring/Summer 2004 ad campaign. Lopez, who hosts music video show “Mex 2 the Max,” will first appear in Ch...
CIM in Deal to Buy Hollywood & Highland
Hollywood-based real estate company CIM Group Inc. has reportedly struck a deal with Hollywood & Highland developer Trizec Properties to purchase the retail and entertai...
Dillard's to Anchor New Border Town Mall
Dillard’s is boosting its presence in California. The Little Rock, Ark.–based department store chain will be one of four anchors in the proposed Imperial Valley Mall in El Centro, Cali...
IMG Moves L.A. Fashion Week Dates
IMG, the New York-based producers of Mercedes-Benz Shows L.A., will host its runways shows a full week before Los Angeles Market Week when it stages its events during the F...
Grupo Aviara to License Cherokee Brand
Cherokee Inc. is heading south of the border....
Top Cos. to Present at AAFA Summit
Representatives of Nike Inc., the Authentic Fitness Corp., Li & Fung USA, the J. Jill Group and American Textile wi...
Sue Wong, Cosmo Girl
Next month, fashion publication Cosmopolitan will honor Los Angeles–based designer Sue Wong with its “Fun Fearless Female” award, an annual award recognizing women who best exemplify the...
China Changes
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements has changed some of the requirements for imported knit fabrics, dressing gowns and bras coming from China to the United States. CITA dropped ...
Forest City Thinks Big in California
California has been called a brutal retail war zone, but Cleveland- based Forest City Enterprises Inc. has been bullish enough on the state to not only co-develop more than 3.3 million square...
