Taking the Sample Offshore
When Herb Yussim decided to get out of the private-label business, he reviewed his assets: a lifetime of apparel production experience, numerous contacts in the contemporary and young designer market ...
2006: So Far, So Good, but Uncertainty Ahead
California’s apparel and textile makers made it through the first half of 2006 in relative health, according to many industry watchers, but the second half of the year is still shrouded in uncertainty ...
Arbor's Apparel: Keeping It Green
Arbor believes in slow growth—and environmental responsibility....
Sun Cap's Performance Fibers Continues Expansion
Sun Capital Partners’ Performance Fibers affiliate has inked a deal to acquire Invista’s German polyester yarn business for an undisclosed sum. ...
Forecast From Las Vegas: Sunny Summer, Hints of Fall
LAS VEGAS—Somehow the trade show scene in Las Vegas managed to expand even as it consolidated....
Milano Unica Combines the Force of Five Shows
Fifth Italian Textile Show Joins Lineup in Milan ...
The View From Vegas
Las Vegas apparel shows provide an indication of things to come ...
CaliforniaMart Exec Sidney Morse, 71
Sidney L. Morse, a longtime apparel industry executive and philanthropist, died Feb. 1 after battling leukemia. He was 71....
Looking for the Action
T-shirt makers choose between concurrent ISS and ASR shows....
Preacute;lude Returns to CMC
Fledgling trade show focuses on print development, trend forecasting....
Remodel Underway on CMC's 13th-Floor Penthouse
The California Market Center has begun a major remodel of the building’s 13th floor that will result in 75,000 square feet of open exhibition space, 35,000 square feet of hard-wall showroom sp...
'Project Runway' Returns With an L.A. Emphasis
The Bravo TV network’s fashion-focused reality show, “Project Runway,” will open its second season Dec. 7 with half of its designer-contestants hailing from Los Angeles....
Despite Rain and Shows, Dedicated Buyers Come Out for L.A. Int'l Textile
This season, the Los Angeles International Textile Show was sandwiched between two market weeks, opened during dramatic thunderstorms and ran concurrently with the runway shows of Lo...
New York-based Iconix Brand Buys Rampage Label
Iconix Brand Group Inc., the New York–based owner of the Candie’s, Badgley Mischka, Joe Boxer and Bongo trademarks, purchased the Rampage brand for...
L.A.'s French Affair
Retailer Galeries Lafayette to spotlight Los Angeles brands ...
'Bra Wars' Provide Backdrop for Lyon, Mode City
LYON, France—European Union and Chinese officials reached terms of an agreement to end the so-called “bra wars” on the closing day of lingerie trade show Lyon, Mode City, held S...
Prelude Print Show Debuts at CMC
Prelude, a new textile print show, bowed Aug. 8–9 at the California Market Center in Los Angeles with exhibitors featuring original textile prints and patterns from local and internat...
Lyon, Mode City Prepares for 21st Run
Brazilian swimwear designers will be in the spotlight at Lyon, Mode City, to be held Sept. 3–5 at the Eurexpo convention and exhibition center in Lyon, France....
Lloyd Klein Plans Boutique, Shifts Focus to L.A.
Couture designer Lloyd Klein has been living a cross-continental life for the past six years, with his company’s design and production operations based in Paris and everything else in Los Angeles....
The CMC's New Team
New management prepares for first market, coming changes ...
Hellmann Goes Domestic
After taking on the world, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics has set its sites on the United States....
ISAM Joins the MAGIC Lineup in Las Vegas
The California-based International Swimwear/Activewear Market (ISAM) trade show will join the Aug. 29–Sept. 1 run of the MAGIC Marketplace in Las Vegas....
Mixed Results at L.A. Textile Show
Traffic reports were mixed at the Los Angeles International Textile Show, which was held between the split Fall ’05 markets at the California Market Center....
FIDM, Annenberg School Event Examines Creativity and Copyright
Innovators in the worlds of fashion, television, music and technology shared the stage at “Ready to Share: Fashion and the Ownership of Creativity,” ...
Howe's New Concept: Indie Executive
Designer Jade Howe has the answer to the metrosexual— and the limitations of that much-used new term coined to describe a man who takes as keen an interest in his wardrobe and grooming as women typical...
New Kids on the Block in Eagle Rock
Could Los Angeles’ next boutique neighborhood be Eagle Rock?...
Permanent Showrooms Open at S.F. Market
SAN FRANCISCO—A group of San Francisco–based reps opened permanent showrooms during the San Francisco Fashion Market at a space across from the Concourse Exhibition C...
Mood Light Despite Gray Skies at L.A. Textile Show
Neither rain nor fast-approaching fashion and market weeks kept designers and piece-goods buyers from turning out at the Los Angeles International Textile Show, held Oct. 18–20 at the...
Second S.F. Fashion Event Lines Up Posen, Burrows and Klein
The lights have barely cooled on the first “official” San Francisco Fashion Week, but the city is already gearing up for its first “official” San...
Lyon, Mode City: Providing an International Connection for Lingerie and Swim
LYON, FRANCE—When Southern California lingerie designer Diane Samandi went to France 12 years ago to attend Lyon, Mode City, she was a rare species: an American with a booth at the lingerie an...
S.F. Fashion Week Debuts With a Spotlight on New Names
SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco hosted its first fashion week organized in one central location at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre Aug. 26–29....
Mid-Year Financial Review: Encouraging Signs, But Challenges Ahead
The national economy is recovering, consumers are still buying, and in Southern California, retail employment is on the rise....
DuPont's New Fiber Heads for China
Wilmington, Del.–based chemical manufacturer DuPont is betting on China to be a key supplier of its new polymer, Sorona...
Lingerie Makers Forego Wires, Straps and Traditional Silhouettes
Strapless, backless, seamless and wireless, NuBrais a patented self-adhesive silicone bra launched two years ago and is carried in boutiques such as Fred Segal Santa Monica, as well ...
The Philosophy of Peter Cohen
Subtle details, lush fabrics and a well-heeled clientele have kept Los Angeles–based Cohen designing locally for 20 years...
New Deals, Fibers and Finishes; Playday Turns 60
Eastman’s Latest Puts Performance in Non-wovens...
Finding Inspiration at L.A. Textile Show
Designers and piece-goods buyers faced high temperatures and high prices on European goods at the April 26–28 run of the Los Angeles International Textile Show. But with the show date...
MAGIC to Hold Shows Under One Roof at LVCC
MAGIC International will hold all its shows under one roof in August. The Woodland Hills, Calif.–based trade show producer recently announced that it will move its women’s sh...
Security Textile Revamps Look, Launches Sourcing Business
Los Angeles–based interlining company Security Textile Corp. has revamped its look with a new logo, a new Web site and a new design for its delivery trucks....
New York Lingerie Shows Draw New Lines, Familiar Names
NEW YORK—Betsey Johnson made an appearance, but Jennifer Lopez and Anna Sui just sent their lingerie. It was all part of the scene at the Feb. 29–March 2 run...
Fashion-Focused Buying at Coterie
NEW YORK—A preview of spring weather and clear-cut Fall trends kept business brisk at the recent Fashion Coterie, held Feb. 29–March 2 at the Show Piers in New York....
Cloudy Skies, Sunny Outlook at MAGIC and Satellite Shows
LAS VEGAS—Halfway through the Feb. 23–26 run of MAGIC International and the concurrent satellite shows, the gray skies lifted and the sun came out....
Retailers Optimistic at the Start of Trade Shows in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS—Heavy rain storms delayed many flights into Las Vegas, causing a slow start to MAGIC International and the concurrent satellite apparel trade shows, but retailers were optim...
Westcoast Exclusive L.A. Bows New Lines, Categories
Visitors to the Feb. 1–3 run of upscale menswear trade show Westcoast Exclusive got a glimpse of the future. The show rolled out an expanded roster of men’s apparel that included contemporary a...
Menswear's New Concept: Contemporary
After years of steady sales of contemporary women’s apparel, men are getting in on the action...
Influential 20
News makers, hot topics and trends....
L.A. Textile Show: So Little Time, So Much to See
There were mixed messages coming from the reps at the Oct. 20–22 run of the Los Angeles International Textile Show at the California Market Center...
Surf's Up in Lyon as Swim/Lingerie Show Adds Young Lines to Mix
LYON, France—As Lyon, Mode City prepares to turn 20, the trade show is getting a little younger...
Las Vegas Trade Shows Aim to Cover Vast Market
Under construction. That’s a familiar sign around Las Vegas as developers spruce up existing retail properties, such as the $1 billion Fashion Show Mall revamp, or develop ne...
Las Vegas Crowd: Hovering Around Satellite Shows
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any bigger, the massive trade-show circuit in Las Vegas grew this season. Retailers had nine shows and 10 venues to visit in the never-ending quest for sale-genera...
