Korean Products and Tradition on Display at Upcoming Event
Korean manufacturers will be on display at an upcoming event at the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles. “Beyond Tradition: Han (Korean) Textile Exhibition Fashion Show,” running Aug. 20–24, will highlight fashion and home...
Rock Media Parties With a View
Rock Media Principal Scott Rosenblum and President Nicole Purcell, photo by Felix SalzmanThe latest entrant on the Los Angeles Fashion Week calendar, Rock Media, hosted a penthouse soiree at the Renaissance Hotel at Hollywood Highland, to kick off the pre-show...
Dilascia's Bakery Launches at Live! on Sunset
Beefcake and bakery items. All the ingredients for a tasty launch party. Showroom owner—and newly minted designer—Patrick Dilascia officially launched his men’s label, Dilascia’s Bakery, on July 30 at Live! on Sunset in Hollywood. The label’s name is an homage to the bakery founded in upstate New York by...
Mad Men Myself? Oh Yes, I Did.
I think I actually have this suit...I can’t believe I had to read about this secondhand. Salon.com’s Broadsheet blog is always a treasure trove of informative/outrageous/shocking/absurd information. And now it led me to this delightful site. I’ve...
Stanford Mart Kicks the Fashion Party Off Tomorrow
The Stanford Mart hosted runway shows when it opened last year.Why wait for L.A. Fashion Week?The Stanford Wholesale Mart, the new apparel wholesale building located in downtown Los Angeles at E. 12th St. and Stanford, is...
Jared Gold is Back, and He Has Plans
Designer Jared Gold, who was a regular on the Los Angeles Fashion Week circuit several years ago, is back—back in Los Angeles, back to wholesaling (after years as a retailer based in Salt...
CFA: Apparel Industry Challenged With Host of Key Issues in 2009/10
California companies—and out-of-state companies that do business here—are faced with a full slate of recent issues that could make business challenging in an already challenging economic environment. ...
Check It Out: 20th Century Fashion: 100 Years of Apparel Ads
My book, “20th Century Fashion: 100 Years of Apparel Ads,” was just released by Taschen. The book is a fashion-focused take on Taschen’s iconic ad series and features some great advertising imagery—from the...
Front Row—and Poolside—at Miami Swim Fashion Week
ApparelNews.net Fashion Editor N. Jayne Seward is in Miami Beach covering Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim and all the other events around town. For a look at her ongoing coverage—including backstage video interviews with the designers—go here....
FIDM Salutes TV Costume Design
Pictured above: One of Joan Bergin's designs for "The Tudors," last year's Emmy winner for "Outstanding Costumes for a Series." The Emmy awards may be a couple of months away (Sept. 12), but you can brush up on the...
Industry Faces Many Hurdles on the Road to Economic Recovery
The recent news of CIT Group’s financial troubles (
CIT's Troubles Have Wide-Ranging Impact on the Industry
It has been a tense week for industry watchers and customers of CIT Group Inc., the largest factor to the apparel industry, after news broke on July 12 that the company was facing a financial...
Eagle Rock Boutique Owl Talk Celebrates 15 Years
Owl Talk in Eagle Rock (Photo courtesy of the store) Over the weekend, I dropped by one of my favorite local stores: Owl Talk in Los Angeles’ Eagle Rock neighborhood.Sisters Kathy and Sharon Kroner were celebrating 15 years in business with an...
Fiber Makers Face the Future With Innovation
Offerings range from “man-made greens” to smarter fibers and new developments in denim....
Familiar Face in the 'Project Runway' Lineup
"Project Runway" designer Johnny Sakalis (photo courtesy of MyLifetime.com)
WSJ Discovers L.A. Fashion, Then Dismisses It
I’m a big fan of the Wall Street Journal, but I’m often amused by their fashion stories, which tend to herald the return of the business suit (according to dry-cleaning associations) or the sudden popularity of stiletto heels or thong...
Audigier Moving Into MJ’s Home
Days after the death of Michael Jackson comes this news: marketing maven Christian Audigier is moving into the King of Pop’s home. TMZ is reporting that Audigier will relocate his company headquarters to the Holmby Hills mansion in December. If you...
L.A. Fashion Week's Call to Action
Jen Uner issues a call to action to the L.A. fashion community.It’s not too early to start getting ready for L.A. Fashion Week! Members of the fashion community—including designers, retailers, executives, stylists, public-relations specialists and fashion show producers—gathered rooftop at the soon-to-open Hotel Erwin in Venice to get fired up for...
Fashion and Philharmonics at the Hollywood Bowl
The Hollywood Bowl celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Hall of Fame awards at its Opening Night Gala on June 19 with a celebrity-packed event that included a dash of Los Angeles fashion. In addition to Hall of Fame inductees...
Price-Conscious Buying at Los Angeles Market
The mood at the June 12–16 Fashion Market was up as buyers perused everything from Immediates to Fall and Holiday styles. “It was the most positive market I’ve seen in a while,” s...
Only 16 Weeks Until L.A. Fashion Week!
(Image from Laeken show at BOXeight Fashion Week in March 2009) October is shaping up to be “Fashion Month” in Los Angeles.The newest player on the Los Angeles Fashion Week calendar, New...
What's French for 'Single'?
Visitors to the famous Galleries Lafayette department store in Paris are getting a dose of Los Angeles glamour thanks to an in-store shop dedicated to L.A. label Single. The 10’-by-12’ shop has been open since the beginning of the year and features racks of...
Tweeting the Latest on CPSIA
The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act—or CPSIA—has been a hot-button industry issue that threatens to impact the childrenswear side of the apparel industry.Childrenswear makers have been closely following the latest on the CPSIA since it was...
Hanging with Howe at Ron Robinson
Jade Howe and Karen MeenaWhat better way to spend a lazy weekend afternoon than hanging out with menswear designer Jade Howe and retailer Karen Meena at Ron Robinson at Fred Segal Melrose in Los Angeles?Howe was the third...
Getting Ready for 'Runway'
Nick VerreosThe sixth season of “Project Runway” has not even aired yet (it’s scheduled to bow on its new home on Lifetime in August), and I’m already thinking about season 7. That’s because I recently caught up with “Project Runway” alum—and recent ApparelNews.net guest blogger—Nick Verreos. Last month, Verreos sat on the panel at the Los...
Hey, gamers! Where's the fashion?
Walking around the recent E3 conference recently, I wondered “Where’s the fashion?” The vast majority of games on display June 2–4 at the Los Angeles Convention Center stuck to the familiar warfare/sports/fantasy themes. Amid the din of virtual gunfire and aspiring Guitar Heroes,...
Levi's Sign of Support
Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images from the Los Angeles TimesThe Los Angeles Times has a photo on its business page of the Levi Strauss store in San Francisco, where the mannequins are decked out in white ribbons—in...
Window Shopping: Otis Designs Featured at Neiman Marcus
Designs created by juniors and seniors studying fashion design at Otis College of Art and Design are on display at Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills. The student designs are displayed in the store’s windows that face Wilshire Boulevard....
Bread & Butter's Eisenstein Homage
Streetwear and urban trade show Bread Butter is returning to its hometown—Berlin—in July after four years in Barcelona. And to celebrate, the trade show appears to be channeling iconic Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein with a film innocuously titled “Coming Home.” Streaming on...
High Marks but Sparse Crowds for GlobalTex Debut
There was a flurry of activity on the afternoon of the second day of new fabric trade show GlobalTex as designer—including Kevan Hall, Eva Franco, Rory Beca, Andrew Christian, Mona Thalheimer and Barb...
Piracy v. Flattery, The Diane von Furstenberg Edition
The Design Piracy Prohibition Act is back in the news again. The proposed law was drafted to extend copyright protection to cover design (and not just print, pattern and surface design, which are already covered). A team of designers and representatives of the Council of...
Mason Gets Anonymous Spotlight in the L.A. Times
I was thrilled to see a photo from one of my favorite Michelle Mason shows on the opening page of the Los Angeles Times’ Web site this morning. But I was perplexed to see that Mason was...
Apparel News Daily Reader
The editors at ApparelNews.net are always looking for a good story—and we’ve decided to...
Mostly Locals at L.A. Textile Show
A predominantly local crowd turned out for the April 14–16 run of the Los Angeles International Textile Show at the California Market Center, where exhibitors included domestic and in...
How to Tie an Obi and Other Kimono Tips
Nobuaki Tomita will mix a little kimono history with kimono humor and kimono style tips when the Japanese kimono designer and stylist presents a kimono demonstration at a Japan America Society of Southern California event on April 17 at the Japanese American National Museum...
In the Wake of Disaster: Executives Stranded, Business Halted
The fashion community in California and beyond is still in shock over this week’s terrorist attacks in Washington, D.C., and New York, and though still focusing on the devastation left in the aftermath...
CLAD Refocuses As L.A. Fashion Week Begins
The Coalition of Los Angeles Designers (CLAD) has refocused its mission against the backdrop of an emerging fashion week in Los Angeles. The two-year-old non-profit designer organization compiled the fashion week calendar including fashion shows and events during the Nov. 2–6 Los Angeles market.
Material World Heads to the CMC to 'Co-Locate' With L.A. Textile Show This Fall
The West Coast debut of
Gen Art to Kick Off BOXeight
Los Angeles Fashion Week will officially open on March 13 with a runway show presented by Gen Art at BOXeight’s L.A. Fashion Week at the Los Angeles Theater in downtown Los Angeles. The show will feature the work of three local designers, Raquel...
Las Vegas Shift: New Players, Smaller Shows, More Venues
LAS VEGAS—Attendees at the recent round of apparel and sourcing trade shows here found a much-changed environment, with new shows, new venues and a new focus on business. ...
Cast Your West Coast Vote
Cable network Bravo is casting its new fashion reality show, “The Fashion Show,” and there’s at least one Los Angeles designer in the running....
L.A. Times Says IMG Could Return to L.A.? Discuss.
The fashion press was abuzz today with the news that IMG, producers of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, will move its biannual event from New York’s Bryant Park a few blocks north to Lincoln Center.
Making the Most of Niche Marketing at Outdoor Retailer
SALT LAKE CITY—Buyer traffic was down at the Jan. 22–25 run of the Outdoor Retailer trade show, but still, people crowded the aisles at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake C...
L.A. Market Draws Smaller Crowds, Cautious Buyers
Retail turnout was not great, but there were orders placed and new contacts made at the Jan. 16–20 run of Los Angeles Fa...
FIDM Gets Inaugural
The Fashion Institute of Design Merchandising will be part of the presidential inauguration festivities when the California design school co-hosts a “Presidential Inaugural Luncheon Fashion Show” on Jan. 18 in Washington,...
MAGIC Launches New Premium Women's Section
Organizers scale back runway shows to focus on remerchandising and show floor activities....
Getting Fro-Yo—Fashionably
The Los Angeles Fashion District is getting a new frozen-yogurt “lounge,” according to downtown blog Angelic.com. Provocatively named Garden Berry, the new “yogurt lounge” will open at 229 E. Ninth St.—just...
Sears' 'Wish Story' with Nick Verreos
Los Angeles–based designer Nick Verreos is featured in Sears’ new “Wish Story” ad campaign, which profiles famous faces—including L.L. Cool J, Vanessa Hudgens, Trisha Yearwood and Ty Pennington—and how the gifts they were given as children influenced them...
Stylesight Teams With B&B Barcelona
Trend-forecasting service Stylesight has struck a deal with European trade show Bread Butter to present a series of programs for the Jan. 21–23 run of Bread Butter Barcelona and The Source, BB’s sourcing show, which runs concurrently with the...
Honoring Juicy Couture at FIDM
A fashionable crowd turned out to honor Juicy Couture founders Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor at the Nov. 12 unveiling of the Juicy Couture Dedication Wall at the Fashion Institute of Design Merchandising in downtown Los...
