Organic-Cotton Sales
Despite a recession that clipped apparel sales in many categories, global organic-cotton apparel and home textile products saw the...
Lords of Liverpool Takes Inspiration From The Beatles
With the Lords of Liverpool, all you need is love to launch a new tops line....
New Report Unveils Online Strategies to Drive Retail Sales
New York–based Tobe, a division of fashion and retail consulting firm The Doneger Group, released a May 11 “State of Retail” report listing 10 online-b...
MBFW-Swim Prepares for Sold-Out Event
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim, the five-day runway event produced by IMG Fashion, has sold out all 20 slots on the schedule for its July 15–19 run in Miami Beach, Fla. ...
Shopping-Mall King
The International Council of Shopping Centers has elected William Taubman, chief operating officer of Taubman Centers, as the chai...
Cooper, New Mart and D&A Retain August Market Dates
The Cooper Design Space, The New Mart and Designers and Agents will maintain their original dates for the Holiday/Resort 2010 Los Angeles Fashion ...
New O’Neill Girls
Surfwear label O’Neill has hired Cedar Carter for its girls’ marketing division. Carter, who comes to the brand afte...
Connected's Recipe for Not Giving Away the Shop
Steeve Bohbot at Connected BoutiqueRunning a street-level showroom can mean some big headaches. Like wayward fashion people wondering into the showroom and not taking ’Sorry, wholesale only’ as an answer....
Stop Staring! Launches Retro Activewear
In its early stages, Stop Staring! was born by the young punk-rock version of designer Alicia Estrada’s own clothes, which she made for herself to express her individual style. Stop Staring! h...
Brands Joining Lineup at D&A Paris
Space is filling up for Designers and Agents’ first show in Paris, set for Oct. 1–4 at Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt in the city’s Marais quarter....
One-Stop Shopping for Technology
SPESA, Techtextil and ATME-I co-located trade shows offer preview of what’s to come in apparel technology....
Haiti Help
President Barack Obama on May 24 signed into law a bill that would extend duty-free benefits for some knit and woven products made...
Textile Enforcement Bill Introduced to Fight Fraud
For years now, yarn and fabric mills have complained that free-trade agreements designed to bolster the U.S. textile industry have been undermined by foreign yarns posing as U.S.-made to gain duty-fre...
Rock & Republic Bankruptcy Enters Next Chapter
Major developments have unfolded in the Rock & Republic bankruptcy case....
Brando Lawsuit
Joe’s Jeans has been sued by Brando Enterprises for unlicensed use of the Marlon Brando name in connection with a line of l...
