Project FAE Seeks to Unlock Post-Consumer Feedstocks for Textile-to-Textile Recycling
| April 27, 2026
Fashion for Good has launched Project FAE—Feedstock Activation Europe
New Cargo Inspection Facility at Local Ports Could Affect Traffic
Port of Los Angeles officials are making waves to build a multi-million dollar container-inspection facility near the docks to examine cargo containers that pose a high sec...
TALA Scholarship With Lisa Kline
The Textile Association of Los Angeles gathered once again to recognize student design talent at its 50th-annual scholarship luncheon, held Nov. 30 in the Fashion Theater of...
Tarrant Buys Canadian Rival
Tarrant Apparel Group, the long-time Los Angeles clothing company best known for its private-label blue jeans and its American Rag label sold at Macy’s and other Fed...
N.Y. Label Vermani Relocates to Orange County
Designer label Vermani Collezioni has relocated from New York’s bustling garment district to the suburban sprawl of Irvine, Calif., in a move made to speed up its production pipeline....
Headhunter Sues Ed Hardy for Fraud
Carlson-Thomas Personnel in Los Angeles has filed a fraud and breach-of-contract lawsuit in California’s Superior Court against Don Ed Hardy Inc. in connection with its hiring of Henr...
GMAC Completes Majority Share Sale to Cerberus
Private investment firm Cerberus Capital Management LP and other investors completed the purchase of a 51 percent stake in General Motors Corp.’s financial unit, GMAC, for about $14 b...
Turnaround Experts Take On Outdoor Label
Marty Weening has the cool look of a beat musician or of an avant-garde painter. His hair is parted in the middle and tumbles toward his shoulders....
Anti-Sweatshop Center Marks Fifth Annivesary
One of the first sweatshop cases the Garment Worker Center ever tackled as a new organization was pretty much a slam dunk....
Forever 21 Sued by Jewelry Designer
Los Angeles jewelry company Christie Martin Designs Inc. filed suit Nov. 17 in Los Angeles Superior Court against the fast-fashion retailer Forever 21. The suit from the Hollywood-ba...
Bella to Debut Performance Line
Los Angeles–based Bella, which specializes in blank tees and other sportswear for the imprinted market, will debut a performance apparel line called Alo at the 2007 Promotio...
Supima Gets Own Show
Luxury cotton growers will launch a new biannual trade show highlighting pima cotton this January in New York....
Apparel Turnaround Specialists Form New Company
After several years as top executives at the Buxbaum Group, twins David and Richard Ellis have left the turnaround and consulting firm to form their own Lo...
Cool Jeans, New-School Marketing
Vernon, Calif.–based premium-denim maker Iron Army caters to the young, hip Myspace generation with skinny “sewn wrong” jeans and an irreverent attitude. Owners Steve Dubbeldam...
Perilman Joins Denim Label
Sometimes cutthroat competition can turn into cutting-edge business partnerships....
Networking With Local Designers
Designers always seem to be at the center of attention. However, designer Miguel Torres believed that there was no place for fashion’s creative people to share the latest gossip or provide support in w...
