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Venus Williams Takes Fashion Seriously (The New York Times)Kanye West's Fashion Film Foray (The Telegraph)Vogue bans too-thin, underage fashion models as unhealthy...
Tilly’s Post IPO Stock Surges
Prices surged on May 4, the first day of trading of stock for Tilly’s Inc. after the highly anticipated initial public offering for theIrvine, Calif.–based surf and skatewear retailer....
H&M’s Larsson Joins Old Navy
San Francisco–based Gap Inc. announced Stefan Larsson, a veteran executive for Swedish retailer Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), will be the first global brand president for Gap‐s...
Lucky Hosts West Coast Edition of Its FABB Conference
Lucky magazine headed west recently for its FABB: Fashion and Beauty Blogger Conference. The event took place on April 30 at the Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Mon...
Messe Frankfurt USA and SPESA Launch Texprocess Americas
ATLANTA—The apparel and manufacturing industries are on the upswing, according to exhibitors at the inaugural Texprocess Americas trade show, held April 24–26 at the Georgia World Cong...
Sanko Introduces High-Performance Cotton
Turkish mill Sanko Textile & Trade has introduced a new cotton fabric that combines the performance characteristics of synthetics with the comfort of cotton. ...
Book Highlights Los Angeles as a City of Style
Everyone knows we're a city of stylish people. Now someone has chronicled exactly what makes L.A. fashionistas so unique.In a book called "City of Style," Melissa Magsaysay dissects that look into various chapters that include trends...
Peru Looks to Latin America to Grow Apparel Exports
LIMA, Peru—The heavy industrial looms inside the Creditex weaving facility are pumping out high-grade cotton fabric that soon will be found in men’s dress shirts sold under th...
Manufacturers Charity Sale Returns to Downtown LA
The Fashion Industries Guild of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center will bring its Manufacturers Charity Clothing Sale back to the Los Angeles Fashion District after an eight-year h...
Beverly Hills Retail Rebound, Rodeo Filling Up
Call it the Rodeo Drive restoration. For the first time since the Great Recession, there is almost no vacancy on Rodeo Drive, the international luxury shopping street in Beverly Hills. Out ...
Woodbury University’s Modern Mix
Downtown L.A.’s Millennium Biltmore Hotel was a fashionable place to be when students, faculty, sponsors and members of the fashion community turned out for Woodbury University’s 48th...
Sandast: Luxury Leather Goods, Made in L.A.
Behind a glass window, trained workers can be seen polishing the edges of a leather belt using an antique machine and hand-painting precisely cut leather arrowhead shapes that will be definin...
Scoop NYC Opens in LA’s Brentwood Neighborhood
Susan Davidson, chief executive of the high-profile Scoop NYC boutique company, arrived in Los Angeles’ Brentwood neighborhood May 2 for the debut party of Scoop’s first California boutique—and the comp...
Fred Segal Brand Rights to Sandow Media
Since the 1960s, Fred Segal has been a retail experience only to be found in Los Angeles County, but soon Fred Segal might be spread throughout the world....
Lawmakers Urge Flexible Rules for Trans-Pacific Partnership FTA
A bipartisan group of lawmakers sent a letter to President Obama asking for more-flexible trade rules on textile and apparel goods under the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade agreement, currently u...
