New Labels From Nexgen Are Authentic and Green
It started as a sort of eco challenge. ...
House of Infinite Radness' Wild Style
Marco Morante has constructed some pretty wild clothes for today’s music stars. He helped source and put together glam pieces such as the cupcake bra that Katy Perry wore in the video for the hit song “Califo...
Costa Mesa's Indie Retail Fashion Scene
Dotted with strip malls, Costa Mesa, Calif.’s East 17th Street doesn’t look like your typical fashion street, but it’s a great place to plan a wardrobe for the tropics, said Yolanda Caldwell, fo...
POP Studio Brings Insider Cache to Outsourcing
In an unassuming brick building in Culver City, Calif., John Moore and his company, Pencil On Paper Studio, are busy giving outsourcing a good name....
Merilyn's Very Independent Showroom
Merilyn Aickin moved her showroom to a non-traditional location.For Merilyn Aickin, you don’t need a traditional showroom building to run a successful showroom biz. She’s proving her point with her new venture. She recently debuted her self named...
Lazzari in at Columbia Japan
Columbia Sportswear Co. named Massimo Lazzari president of Columbia Sportswear Japan, a subsidiary of the Portland, Ore.–ba...
Retail Focus Resource Guide
Buhler Quality Yarns Corp. provides ringspun yarn with 100 percent Supima, 100 percent Micro Modal, 100 percent Micro Tencel and 50/50 blends of Micro Modal or Micro Tencel with Supima cotto...
USA-ITA to Discuss Import Challenges With California Companies
Apparel importers face a host of changes this year—including rising cotton prices, a new Congress and new customs initiatives....
Japan Fashion Now--Go Now!
During my recent trip to New York to cover the men’s trade shows, I got a chance to check out the Japan Fashion Now exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Museum at FIT. I loved it so much, I told a friend when she went to New York. And now—since the exhibition has...
Agenda Trade Show Returns to CMC
Agenda, producers of the eponymous action sports/streetwear trade show and showroom, is returning to the California Market Center and will take up residence in the building’s...
Bikinis and Lingerie at A Tropical Affair
In the coastal city of Santa Barbara, Calif., Heather Taylor’s A Tropical Affair boutique synchronizes two of the most body-conscious items in a woman’s dresser to be sold in ...
House of Petro Zillia Closes Store, Debuts Forever 21 Collaboration
On Feb. 4, fast-fashion giant Forever 21 debuted a collaboration with Los Angeles–based fashion label House of Petro Zillia, but on Feb. 1 the label’s designer, Nony Tochterman, announced she will be closing her colo...
January's Chill Doesn't Deter Shoppers
Retail sales in January were surprisingly robust, despite chilling cold and heavy snowfall across much of America, which threatened to put retail sales into a freeze, according to the International Council of Shoppi...
Apparel News Daily Reader
Palm Springs Cool (Style Section L.A.)This Old Thing? Actually, It’s New (The New York Times)Concept Los Angeles Fashion Week announces a New York City...
Dirty Dolls: Intimates and Shapers With a Pin-Up Experience
The founders of Dirty Dolls lingerie, Erica Paul and Courtney Newman, like to stage a memorable affair when customers try on their lingerie collection. The chipper friends r...
