Tom Ford in L.A.
FORD IN LA: Designer Tom Ford drew a high-profile crowd to his Autumn/Winter 2015 Womenswear runway show, held Feb. 20 at Milk Studios in Los Angeles. Many attendees, such as Jennifer Lopez, wore pieces from the designer’s recent collections.
A Solar-Powered Factory Helps Maintain Domestic Production
Bella+Canvas started out as a company dedicated to making T-shirts in the United States—a business model that hasn’t changed much even as other manufacturers have headed overseas.
Nordstrom Leaving Westside Pavilion for Century City
Nordstrom saying adios to the Westside Pavilion
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Asa from Shahs of Sunset: Time for Caftans & Turbans
Asa Soltan Rahmati not only wants to bring back the turban, she wants more women to wear caftans. The star of Shahs of Sunset show talks about her recently introduced line Asa Kaftans, and what brings mystery to a woman.
Bangladesh Blank T-shirt Maker Serves the U.S. Market Though Southeast Operation
Keya, a Bangladesh-based producer of 100-percent cotton T-shirts and other knit apparel,is finding success in the U.S. market by using a North Carolina beachhead as its distribution point.
Lingerie Brand Regina Miracle Adds Centric PLM
Regina Miracle International Ltd., a Hong Kong–based lingerie and shapewear maker, is adding Centric 8 product lifecycle management software to help coordinate collaboration between the lingerie company’s sample-development team and its customers and its internal sample-development team.
Florida Apparel Brand Lord Daniel Taps NGC for ERP
Lord Daniel Sportswear selected NGC’s fashion enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to help the Florida company manage its growing specialty apparel business.
Roberto Cavalli Uses Optitex CAD to Coordinate Hand-Crafted Details and Tight Turn Times
Italian luxury brand Roberto Cavalli added the Optitex 2-D Pattern Making and Optitex 3-D Virtual Prototyping CAD Suites.
Macbeth Introduces Apparel
Saban Brands announced this month that its Macbeth property, which is headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif., has struck two new licensing deals.
Ports Still Clogged With Waiting Ships
Hammering out a tentative contract with longshore workers took nine months of negotiations. Now importers are hoping it doesn’t take as long to clear thebacklog of merchandising floating on the water outside the country’s largest ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach.
RVCA Pops in Manhattan
Women’s contemporary show Axis wrapped up in New York City on Feb. 24, and RVCA, the Orange County, Calif. headquartered label, celebrated by opening a pop-up shop in Manhattan.
Original Paperbacks: Custom Dyed in So Cal Facility
Original Paperbacks has program to offer retailers unique colors and quick-turn deliveries.
