Body by Lycra
Italian fitness shoe and apparel maker Fila has introduced the Fila Body Toning System featuring Lycra Sport fabric. The collectio...
L.A. Fashion Week Spring 2011: Angel Johnson
Angel Johnson explored the ideas of darkness and light, as well as angels and skeletons in her collection shown o...
L.A. Fashion Week Spring 2011: Julia Clancey
Julia Clancey debuted
L.A. Fashion Week Spring 2011: JL Marks
JL Marks is all about the sparkle and fringe for Spring 2011. The brand, which showed its Spring 2011 co...
James Perse's Rockin' Party
Fistful of Mercy's top dudes from left; Dhani Harrison, Joseph Arthur and Ben HarperEvery store opening party should have some music. When the James Perse label held a debut Oct. 28 for its Hollywood store at...
L.A. Fashion Week Spring 2011: Anthony Franco, Skingraft and Ashton Michael
Lighting was dramatically dark at the ornate Exchange Los Angeles nightclub, but the imagination and promise of avant-garde fashions broke through the shadows Oct. 20, when designers...
L.A. Fashion Week Spring 2011: CMC Contemporary Runway Show
Spring was in the air at the
Sunset Plaza Plans New Retail Building
Sunset Plaza, one the Los Angeles area’s oldest retail districts, broke ground on a new building on Oct. 26....
L.A. Fashion Week Spring 2011: White Trash Beautiful
Last season, White Trash Beautiful, the design collaboration between Bon Jovi rocker Richie Sambora and designer Nikki Lund, opened the L.A. Fashion Weekend shows with a rock ’n’ roll–...
L.A. Fashion Week Spring 2011: ISM Mode
In the middle of the fashion party/carousal of Concept Fashion Week, ISM Mode designer Inka Sherman created a chic oasis where models wearing her vintage-inspired designs knit, playe...
L.A. Fashion Week Spring 2011: Project Ethos
Project Ethos brought its
Retail Confidence Trumps Rain at Fashion Market Northern California
Rainy weather cut into attendance at the Fashion Market Northern California trade show, held Oct. 23–26 at the San Mateo County Event Center in San Mateo, Calif., but it did not throw a wet t...
Barbara Lesser: Sourced in So Cal
Los Angeles designer Barbara Lesser got her start in the industry as a sweater designer—a job that took her around the world to source sweaters out of Asia, India, South America and Italy. ...
Saks South of the Border
New York–based retailer Saks Inc. opened its second licensed Saks Fifth Avenue in Mexico City. The two-story, 82,500-square...
L.A. Fashion Week Spring 2011: PolyChic
Venezuelan designer Ela Acosta took the word “recyclable” seriously....














