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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.
New O.C. Shopping Center Sold
Bella Terra, the open-air shopping center under development on the site of the former Huntington Center mall in Huntington Beach, Calif., was sold for $228 million...
Saks Makes it Payback Time
Saks Inc. will reimburse about $48 million to vendors after an internal investigation showed the retailer improperly collected markdown allowances over an eight-year period....
Intuition Owner to Appear on QVC
Jaye Hersh has used almost every popular technology to sell clothes for her West Los Angeles shop, Intuition. Last year, she launched the Web site www.shopintui...
Bass Pro Shops to Expand in SoCal
Springfield, Mo.–based Bass Pro Shops is set to open a 180,000-square-foot Outdoor World super store at the Victoria Gardens open-air shopping center in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. This...
Retail World Launched L.A. City Controller's Career
Deep roots in the garment industry and seven years of retail experience gave Laura Chick the skills she needed to become one of the most powerful women in Los Angeles city politics....
M.Fredric Launches New Men's Boutique
For most of his two decades in retail, Fred Levine said he thought building a men’s clothing business would be a mistake. It was simply too different from the women’s clothing market that had b...
Private Fashion Archive Opens for Designers
It’s the nightmare of every designer....
Retail District Goes Against the Grain of West Los Angeles Shopping
There were no fashion boutiques on Los Angeles’ West Third Street when Wendy Freedman opened her vintage clothing store, Polkadots & Moonbeams, in the historically Jewish neighborhood in 1...
Svoboda Launches Plus-Size Web Site
Plus-size line Svoboda has launched a new e-tail site,
Riding the Waves of Young Men's Fashions
Quiksilver Inc. opened a new kind of men’s store Aug.16 at the South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, Calif. The boutique, named Quiksilver, will showcase the surfwear giant’s most fashion-forward y...
Boy Oh Boy! to Sell Kids Fashion
Little boys are interested in skateboarding, monster movies and, if Gary and Carol Ulaner are right, casual contemporary clothes....
86 Vintage: Little Sis' Boutique Grows Up
Strolling through 86 Vintage is like touring the dream wardrobe of Imitation of Christ’s Tara Subkoff when she was a 20-something-year-old kid....
Return to the Mall
Retailers create a marketing message with new technology....
Summer Heat Slows July '05 Sales
July is typically considered the beginning of the Back-to-School season across the United States. But many consumers were not interested in buying warmer fall clothes as one of the strongest heat wav...
Aunt Beep Signs New L.A. Lines
Aunt Beep, a Los Angeles wholesaler and online retailer of California-produced designs, recently added a number of labels to its stable. Act III, sportswear aimed a...
