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ARGYLE Haus Supports Emerging Brands With Incubator Launch
By Dorothy Crouch, Contributing Writer | October 3, 2025
Los Angeles–headquartered design house and manufacturer ARGYLE Haus of Apparel has launched its Fashion Incubator as a program that provides comprehensive domestic planning, development, production and promotion for emerging brands.
L.A. Apparel Co. in Legal Battle With J.C. Penney
Montebello, Calif.–based girls’ apparel maker Guild Inc. filed a lawsuit on April 29 in Los Angeles Federal Court against J.C. Penney Corp. for copyright infringement and unfair business prac...
Developers Pull Out of Fashion District Dallas Project
Fashion District Dallas (FDD), the proposed apparel market in downtown Dallas that was to challenge the Dallas Market Center for a piece of the Southwest wholesale market, a...
Local Importers, Manufacturers Brace for Shipping-Rate Hikes
The news coming out of Asia these days isn’t great for apparel importers...
Kronfli's Niche Business
Local mill weathers difficult market with specialty fabrics ...
Kandy Kiss Moving to Sylmar, Calif.
Pacoima, Calif.–based Kandy Kiss of California Inc. is moving its headquarters to the Cascades Business Park in Sylmar, Calif. Ac...
U.S. Commerce Dept. Chooses L.A. Firm for Textile IDs
The United States Department of Commerce has selected the DNA textile-marker solution of Los Angeles–based Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. to aid customs officials in identifying the origins of im...
Wilhelm Forms CBI Group
Walter Wilhelm Associates LLC, an apparel-industry consultancy firm, has formed a management team to help manufacturers in the Caribbean Basin Initiative territory transition to full-package ...
Tarrant Acquires Co-ownership of American Rag Apparel
Los Angeles-based Tarrant Apparel Group—a publicly held manufacturer of private-label woven and knit apparel for men, women and children—has acquired a licensing agreement with special...
Vix Settles Target Dispute
San Diego-based contemporary swimwear maker Vix Swimwear Inc. has reached a private settlement with Minneapolis-based Target Corp. regarding a trademark- and copyright-infringement dispute o...
T-Shirt Company in Legal Skirmish With MasterCard
San Francisco-based streetwear manufacturer Dirtbag Clothing Inc. is in a legal battle with MasterCard International. The credit-card giant claims one of Dirtbag’s T-shirt designs inf...
Pam Roberts Joins Fashion District Dallas
The developers of the proposed apparel-showroom project Fashion District Dallas (FDD) have hired veteran fashion-industry executive Pam Roberts as West Coast director....
Lara Noel Hill Launches Secondary Line
Los Angeles-based custom-jewelry designer Lara Noel Hill will launch a secondary, mass-produced jewelry line during Los Angeles Market Week. ...
New Showrooms for Market
New York-based contemporary womenswear line Rebecca Taylor has opened a showroom in Suite 811 at the New Mart in downtown Los Angeles....
A/R Management Aligns With Polaris
La Verne, Calif.-based accounts-receivables specialist A/R Management Services (ARMS) and Claremont, Calif.-based EDI/ASN firm Polaris Imports Consulting Group have aligned ...
Coming out of the Fog
S.F. apparel manufacturers hope to recast area as a northern design center...
