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Levi’s Celebrates Venice, Calif., With Abbot Kinney Pop-Up
By Dorothy Crouch, Contributing Writer | June 25, 2026
Levi’s Summer headed to Venice, Calif., recently as the brand celebrated Los Angeles creatives with a pop-up shop on Abbot Kinney.
Valentino in O.C.
Italian design house Valentino opened a 3,000-square-foot store on July 11 in the South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, Calif. As at Valentino’s five other North American stores, the boutique’...
Caruso Suit Against General Growth Goes Forward
There is a fight brewing between two real estate developers over competing malls in Glendale, Calif....
Rampage Winsat Webby Awards
Los Angeles–based Rampage Clothing Co. won a Webby Worthy award during the ninth annual Webby Awards, which honored the world’s best Web sites....
James Perse's Malibu Store Offers Simple Elegance
The guiding principle of James Perse’s fashion is simplicity, but his business got complicated in the last week. His fashion line is riding a wave of new retail activity....
Contemporary Label Single Opens Melrose Boutique
Galina Sobolev opened a boutique to give a down-home feel to the exotic look of her label, Single....
Retail Confidential: Brand Building at Hootenanny
Concert T-shirts are familiar items for sale at rock concerts. But at Orange County music festival Hootenanny, an 11-year-old tradition, the fashions went beyond the standard band-logo tee....
Unique Knitwear Designer to Open Boutique
Coryn Madley got in the fashion business to design idiosyncratic knitwear in 2002. She will soon be able to add the vocation of retailer to her reacute;sumeacute; when she opens a 700-square-foot stor...
Online Retailer Brings New Calif. Designers to the World
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Top Fashion Retailers Move to South Coast Plaza
South Coast Plaza is known for being a Southern California address for some of fashion’s most legendary names, including Versace and Dolce & Gabbana. Th...
Bebe Moves to Rodeo Drive
Bebe will open a new, free-standing boutique on exclusive Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills in November 2005, according to a recent company announcement....
Where Innovation Meets Denim
Andrew and Jegrave;nelle Meyer vowed to shake up Orange County’s fashion scene more than 11 years ago. They opened a boutique called Habit, where they gambled that the surf-crazy consumers of ...
H&M Looking to Build More Stores in Calif.
Real estate agents across California are trying to figure out what the next move will be for Swedish cheap-chic retailer Hennes & Mauritz LP, which is opening a 35,000-square-foot store i...
Belle Gray Opens Second Store
Denim-chic specialty retailer Belle Gray, owned by actors Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin, will open a second boutique July 1 in Calabasas, Calif....
Sportswear Line Hard Tail Opens First Store
The Hard Tail sportswear line debuted in 1992, but owner Dick Cantrell said he believes that many people will first see the full extent of the label this year. On June 17, he and Patty Cantr...
Denise Carolyn Opens Second Boutique
More than six years ago, Denise Carolyn Meyerson was selling accessories from a kiosk at the Sherman Oaks Fashion Square. Last month, she and her husband, Ben, opened the second Deni...
