EVENTS
MOTHER Celebrates Stand-alone Flagship in Beverly Hills
By Dorothy Crouch, Contributing Writer | October 1, 2026
MOTHER celebrated the opening of its Beverly Hills, Calif., flagship with a festive party Aug. 25 at the 3,850-square-foot space located on Canon Drive.
Back-to-School Fuels Retail Profits
After worrying that the spending for the Back-to-School season would be late, retailers reported the annual shopping season arrived right on schedule. ...
Possible East Coast Port Strike Has West Coast Anxious
With longshore workers up and down the East and Gulf coasts threatening to strike if contract negotiations aren’t resolved by Sept. 30, retailers and apparel manufacturers were checking their contingen...
RVCA, Element Key to Plan For Saving Billabong
California brands Element and RVCA willbe crucial in turning around the ailing surf giant BillabongInternational Ltd., the brands' parent ...
Off-Price Jeans Distributor Adds Executives
Jessica’s, the Southern California company that sells off-price premium blue jeans and other goods to retailers such as Marshalls and Costco, has hired two new executives to ...
C. Wonder Opens First West Coast Store at Fashion Island
Tory Burch LLC co-founder Chris Burch opened the first West Coast location for his C. Wonder boutique concept store recently at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, Cal...
Restoration Hardware Expanding Into Apparel
Restoration Hardware, the high-end furniture and home-furnishing retail chain based in Corte Madera, Calif., is getting into the clothing business....
FiftyOne Helps Retailers Go Global
When Tommy Bahama was looking to take its website global, the company knew it didn’t want to do it on its own. After taking a year to develop a site just for Canada, the Seattle-based brand wa...
Bebe’s Fabricant Joins Aeropostale
Bebe Stores Inc. announced Aug. 17 that Emilia Fabricant, president of the Brisbane, Calif.–based retailer’s Bebe division, would leave the company for “personal reasons” effective immediately. F...
LuxeYard LaunchesNew Site for Latino Shoppers
New York–based flash-sale site LuxeYard is launching a new website designed for the Latino market....
C. Wonder Opens First West Coast Store at Fashion Island
Tory Burch LLC co-founder Chris Burch opened the first West Coast location for his C. Wonder boutique concept storerecently at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, Calif., and t...
Mobile vs. Social: Mobile Commerce Soars While Social Shopping Drops
Social shopping took a sharp decline in this year’s second quarter, according to a recent report released by IBM....
E-commerce’s Next Frontier: Same-Day Service
One of the competitive advantages to bricks-and-mortar retail may be knocked down soon....
Speedo Performance Pushes Warnaco Revenues
Speedo swimwear, headquartered in Los Angeles, was a rising star in the secondquarter earnings report that parent company Warnaco Group Inc. posted on Aug. 6....
New Trade Legislation Takes Effect
Apparel groups praised the recent bundle of laws that expand the possibility of sourcing in Africa and Central America....
Octavio Carlin’s Westside Boutique
Call Octavio Carlin a Westsider now....
