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MOTHER Celebrates Stand-alone Flagship in Beverly Hills
By Dorothy Crouch, Contributing Writer | October 1, 2026
MOTHER celebrated the opening of its Beverly Hills, Calif., flagship with a festive party Aug. 25 at the 3,850-square-foot space located on Canon Drive.
June Sales Weak, As Some Expected
June retail sales were soft. The International Council of Shopping Centers trade group reported that U.S. retail increased by a wan 0.2 percent....
H&M Opening in City of Industry
Swedish retailer Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) staked a bigger claim to the Southern California fashion market....
Centric Partners With vrSoftware for New Virtual Merchandising Tool
Centric—a provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software for apparel, luxury goods and consumer goods companies—has partnered with vrSoftware, a company headquartered...
Lightspeed Launches New iPad Technology for Interactive Cross-Selling in Retail Stores
The Canadian retail software company LightSpeed has launched a new retail technology for Apple iPads that enables interactive cross-selling in retail stores. ...
Shareen Collection Relaunches at New W. Third Street Store
When a prescientfriend in 2007 advised Shareen Mitchell to pull the plug on her emerging dresslabel, Shareen, the friend forecast the economy was teetering at the edge of acliff...
Karmaloop Founder Receives E & Y Entrepreneur Award
Greg Selkoe, chiefexecutive officer and founder of streetwear e-commerce site Karmaloop, was among therecipients of the “Entrepreneur of the Year” award for e-commerce ...
Bank Sues Retailer to Retrieve $2.6 Million
After more than 20 yearsin business, Politix, the contemporary clothing store that sells men’s and women’s apparelat the Beverly Center in Los Angeles, is shutting its doors....
PacSun Faces Wave of Challenges
Beleaguered mallretailer Pacific Sunwear of California Inc. recently unveiled its Golden State of Mindmarketing campaign, featuring some of the most up-to-date media technology andim...
Fashion Market Northern California Finds Retailers Working Hard for Their Money
SAN MATEO, Calif.—After 12 years of owning a smallwomenswear store in Grass Valley, Calif., Debbie Dejesus packed up her merchandise,purchased a used white delivery truck and hit the road....
Levi’s Creates New E-Commerce Role
San Francisco–based denim giant Levi Strauss & Co. has created a new position to oversee e-commerce business and retail operations. The company promoted Joelle Maher to fill the role of executive ...
Lisa Z: The Retail Therapist Is In
Lisa Zagha’s card lists her occupation as retail therapist. She takes the therapy part as seriously as the retail....
In Slow Economy, Retail Jobs Growth Up
In an economy marked by a tough outlook for the jobs market overall, employment at California’s clothing and clothing-accessories retailers increased this year, but economists and industry watchers do ...
Moods of Norway Names Execs for U.S. Expansion
Moods of Norway, an Oslo, Norway–headquartered fashion label with Los Angeles roots, recently announced two new executives to help execute a U.S. rollout....
Retailers Gear Up for ’Second Christmas’ as Tourist Season Begins
Even if the wider U.S. economy seems slow, one market segment continues to make retailers’ cash registers ring—tourism....
Malibu Lumber Yard Mall Sold for $35.5 Million
The exclusive Malibu Lumber Yard retail center in Malibu, Calif., has a new owner....
