Horizon Swim: A Swimwear Label With a Personal Touch
By day, Jessi Taylor is an executive assistant at a Los Angeles advertising company. By night she is a swimwear designer who makes her own patterns and sews her own swimsuits—one by one—for her line called Horizon Swim.
Drupe: Around the World With an International Staff:
When Mireya de Andrés told her parents she was quitting her banking job in Geneva, Switzerland, to start a fashion line, they thought she was crazy. Fashion seemed to be on the flip side of the finance world.
Swimming in a New Direction
Tori Praver modeled for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition in far-flung locales such as the Canary Islands off of Spain, her home island of Maui, and Turks and Caicos in the Caribbean. This year she is going to be modeling for her own brand.
Old Bull Lee: After Walk Shorts, Try Surf
Rent a Manhattan Beach address, and it might only be a matter of time before you are in the surf business.
Raj & Sports Illustrated Team for Swim Brand
For more than 50 years, the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue has been making headlines with its pictorials of supermodels posing in fashion’s most stylish swimwear in exotic locales.
Home Shopping Network is Being Acquired by QVC
Two big television shopping cable networks will now be one.
June Sales Sunny for Some Retailers
Some retailers saw June gloom. Some experienced a positively sunny June.
Action Sports Vet Smith Joins Boardriders
Nate Smith was named president of the Americas region for Boardriders Inc., the Huntington Beach, Calif., parent company of Quiksilver, Roxy and DC Shoes.
Vuori Pops at Malibu Country Mart
The Vuori brand makes performance apparel for yoga, CrossFit and other activities. It recently opened a pop-up at Malibu Country Mart.
Lectra Introduces Fashion PLM 4.0 at Industry 4.0 Event
French equipment and software maker Lectra recently introduced its latest product lifecycle management software at an industry event at the Paris-based company’s technology center in Bordeaux.
AAFOA Looking to Drive Innovation for Functional Fabrics
Advanced Functional Fabrics of America—which is based at MIT and has nearly 100 members from a diverse group of manufacturers, startups and institutes of higher learning—is leading a $317 million private-public effort to drive innovation in textile and fiber manufacturing.
Hyosung and Sofileta Partner for New Creora Fresh Collection
French textile mill Sofileta is working with South Korean fiber company Hyosung on a new collection featuring Hyosung’s Creora Fresh fiber.
Patagonia’s Bikinis and Board Shorts Hit the Fair Trade Trail
Patagonia, the California outdoor-apparel company known as one of the first U.S. clothing companies to embrace the environment, is taking bikini and boardshorts production to a new level.
Dock & Bay Dives Into Active With Eco-Friendly Collection
Lightweight, microfiber towel maker Dock & Bay has a new collection with a sustainable story behind it.
