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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.
Lifestyle Retail Goes Urban
Lifestyle shopping centers typically have been the domain of more upscale markets, but a group of Orange County, Calif., developers is bringing the concept into the more urban environs of southeast Lo...
Azalea's Spirit of Adventure
Azalea set out to be the alternative boutique in San Francisco’s eclectic Hayes Valley neighborhood. It’s one reason the shop’s co-owners, Catherine Chow and Corina Nurimba, built an organic bea...
Menswear Lands Retailer Coveted Real Estate
The often-heard complaint that Orange County, Calif., is over-retailed takes a special meaning in the high-profile tourist town of Laguna Beach....
Macys.com: Thinking Outside the Big Box
Way back in 1998, Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores, Inc. separated its nascent online division (started in 1996) and created a freestanding independent corporation known as...
Apparel Demand Up, Yet Spending Is Flat for Back-to-School
Shopping for apparel should be on the consumer’s mind during the upcoming Backto- School season, according to a survey released July 24 by the market research firm NPD Group Inc. ...
Ferragamo on the Move in O.C.
On July 28, Calypso Christiane Celle signed a lease to open a boutique at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, Calif. The New York–based ethnic-inspired luxury line has mo...
Japanese Streetwear Label Takes Melrose Location
Los Angeles’ Melrose Avenue gained added cachet as a designer district when Marc Jacobs and Paul Smith opened stores there more than one year ago. But the fashion thoroughfar...
Boutique Takes 'Green' Fashions to Freeway Crowd
Delilah Snell came tantalizingly close to owning a captive audience when she opened her environmental lifestyle store The Road Less Traveled on July 15....
Sexy Pretty Things
Intimate apparel is a booming market. American consumers spent nearly $10 million on intimate apparel between June 2005 and May 2006, according to the NPD Group, a research firm in P...
Forever 21's Superstore
When Donald Chang launched his first clothing store in 1984 on Figueroa Street in Los Angeles, it was a mere 900 square feet....
Beating Summertime Blues
Retailers Find Ways to Thrive as Consumer Spending Slows...
Online Apparel Sales Keep Clicking Along
E-tailing is expected to exceed $200 billion this year, according to the recently released
Erica Dee's Street Life
With top-rate shopping centers a stone’s throw away in Newport Beach, Calif., it would have been a natural for Erica D. Thomas to dream about opening her Er...
Stock Analyst Lukewarm on PacSun as Company Plans New Direction
A Wall Street analyst lowered her stock recommendation from buy to hold for Pacific Sunwear of California Inc. in a June 29 research note, just as the highly successful retailer of s...
June '06 Brings Sunny Results for Retailers
Many retailers avoided the traditional June gloom, reporting increases in comparable-store sales particularly in the luxury and specialty-store sectors....
