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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.
Shirley Goes to London
Shirley of Hollywood has been manufacturing lingerie in Southern California since 1948. But on April 21, the company will open its first store—in London. Subsidiary Shirley of Hollywood UK, ...
What's Next for Ku
The sign is still up, but Ku USA Inc. closed its flagship store on Melrose and Curson avenues in January to concentrate on developing its wholesale business. But Los Angeles may not have seen...
Arden B. Trades Up in Beverly Center
Contemporary women’s fashion boutique Arden B. raised its profile in Los Angeles’ Beverly Center recently. It relocated to a larger, 3,000-square-foot space on the north end of the c...
NewTech Visual Display 'Superstore' Opens in L.A.
Los Angeles–based Technovix Inc. has brought the big-box concept of retailing to the visual display arena with NewTech Display, a 60,000-square-foot showroom and warehouse in downtown...
Blonde Ambition
Most of Yana Khromova’s friends went to college after graduating from Peninsula High School, near Southern California’s Palos Verdes Estates, in 2001. But reading Plato and sweating through ch...
Irvine Spectrum Builds Fashion Savvy With Nordstrom, Specialty Stores
The Irvine Spectrum Center is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, and the entertainment-focused shopping center in Irvine, Calif., will blaze a new path for its birthday: fashion....
Classic Surf Style Lives Again in Santa Monica
The Hawaiian prints and summer colors of Original Jams surfwear were fashion icons of the 1960s. The brand’s classic surf look rode a wave to Santa Monica, Calif., on April 8....
Kmart Gets Site Smart
Kmart’s recently redesigned Web site,
Fashion and Survival; Five Retailers Talk
Retail success often means hitting the right trends before they peak and avoiding a minefield of fashion mistakes that can sink even experienced boutique owners....
March '05 Gains Shaky, April '05 Sales Forecast Good
March sales bloomed because of an early Easter. Retail sales increased 4.1 percent over those of the previous year, according to the index maintained by the New York–based International Council of Sho...
Caruso Names New Leasing Exec
Todd M. Russell, a former leasing executive for the South Coast Plaza shopping center in Costa Mesa, Calif., has been named senior vice president of leasing for Los Angeles–based Caru...
Ten Shops to Watch
Star power jolted Los Angeles’ retail scene this past year when two major designers, Marc Jacobs and Miuccia Prada, opened flagship stores on Melrose Place and Rodeo Drive, respectively....
Beverly Center's Marketing Campaign Goes Guerrilla
Los Angeles’ hipsters may soon find themselves having to ’fess up to whether they’re cool or not....
Diane von Furstenberg Announces L.A. Store
The west end of Melrose Avenue is already well on its way to becoming a haven for top designer names, and now Diane is moving in....
Sunset Inc. 'Diva-cizes'
For the past 20 years, Torrance, Calif.–based Sunset Inc. has been mostly satisfied with wholesaling swim brands such as Lucy Love to retailers including Nordstrom a...
