EVENTS
Sanctuary Enters Owned Retail With Beverly Hills Flagship
By Alexandra Romero, Contributing Writer | March 6, 2026
After nearly three decades as a wholesale- and D2C-driven contemporary label, Sanctuary has entered owned retail with the debut of its first flagship, on Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 27.
Villains Bets on the Dinosaur
Randy Brewer thought he had seen it all when it comes to T-shirts in the more than nine years of working as general manager/buyer for San Francisco boutiques Villains and Villains Va...
Jared Gold Plans National Retail Rollout
Designer Jared Gold celebrated the opening of his third and fourth Black Chandelier retail stores in Salt Lake City with a pre-opening runway show and party held Nov. 17 at ...
Where Does Fashion Fit in Black Friday?
Black Friday has been called the Super Bowl of shopping. But is the Friday after Thanksgiving, the traditional start of the Christmas shopping season, specifically a fashion event?...
Guess Who's Coming to Retail
On the heels of a record third quarter, Los Angeles–based apparel maker and retailer Guess? Inc. announced plans for a new apparel/retail venture, G by Guess. The new, mall-...
Melrose Place: Off the Beaten Path and on Designers' Radar
Is Los Angeles’ Melrose Place on the verge of becoming the next Rodeo Drive?...
Beverly Center Set for Revamp
Los Angeles’ Beverly Center will be 25 years old in 2007, and navigating the shopping center will be a much easier task in the upcoming year....
Rolling Hills Mall Sold for $95m
The Avenue of the Peninsula, a 375,000-square-foot lifestyle shopping center based in tony Rolling Hills Estates, Calif., has been sold for $95 million to Stoltz Real Estate...
H&M Flagship Lands in L.A.
Los Angeles got its first H&M flagship store, which opened on Nov. 9, almost one year after the Swedish-based retailer selected San Francisco as the site of its first California store....
Paul Frank Fetes Store, Collaborations
Starting Nov. 17, Paul Frank Industries will celebrate the opening of its new Melrose Avenue store in Los Angeles with a three-day party complete with band performances and limited-edition of...
Forever 21 Adds Heritage
L.A.–based fast-fashion retailer debuts concept store Heritage 1981...
From Vanilla to Unique, Retailers Do-It-Themselves
When Alan Hall drives his commercial truck, he has to tell people that he is not a handyman. Despite his truckload of heavy tools, he is a retailer of fashionable, often fri...
Hot Topic Announces Declines and a Promotion
On Nov. 15, Hot Topic Inc. reported that comparable sales for its third quarter decreased 6.8 percent. On the same day, Chris Daniels was promoted to president of Hot Topic’s Torrid c...
PacSun Announces Comeback Strategy
Pacific Sunwear of California Inc. announced on Nov. 9 that same-store sales for its third quarter declined 6.7 percent, compared to an increase of 4.6 percent over the same period in the previous ye...
In-Store Concept in Asia to Focus on L.A. Designers
The lineup of labels that will fill exclusive L.A. designer stores within department stores in Shanghai and Seoul is still being worked out....
Randy Calls All Party Girls
Main Street in Huntington Beach, Calif., has been called the Rodeo Drive of surf retailing, but Alan Hall thinks an important demographic has been mostly overlooked on this thoroughfare. It’s the night...
