Sene Brings Tech-Enabled Suits To District La Brea
Retail
The secret to making the perfect suit involves a certain harmony; it balances how a suit fits the wearer, the materials used in the suit and its overall design/look, according to Ray Li.
Schoenfeld Exits PacSun
Retail
Gary Schoenfeld, the chief executive who steered mall retailer Pacific Sunwear of California through a massive restructuring post–Great Recession and a Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2016, has left the company.
First Fashion Setters Award Show Takes a Bow
Fashion Setters
With colorful, celebratory touchdown dances, Terrell Owens made headlines during his NFL career.
Safavi Joins Caruso
Retail
Reza Safavi recently joined Caruso, the real estate development company that owns and manages prominent retail centers such as The Grove in Los Angeles, according to a Caruso statement.
Sprawling LA Market Draws Wide Range of Buyers
LA Market
For many buyers and exhibitors, the March 13–16 run of Los Angeles Fashion Market was the last stop in a long trade-show season that included shows three weeks ago in Las Vegas and New York.
Fashion Rally for Immigrants
The Trump administration plans to change immigration rules, and some fashion brands have entered the brewing political debate with T-shirts.
Mario De La Torre's Into The Darkness
Mario De La Torre's Into the Darkness collection took the Style Fashion Week runway with a celebration of vinyl and latex styles for women of all sizes.
Moods of Norway at Style Fashion Week
About a five minute drive away from its flagship on Melrose Avenue, the Moods of Norway brand produced a Style Fashion Week show at Pacific Design Center March 10.
David Tupaz at Style Fashion Week
David Tupaz Couture took the runway Style Fashion Week March 10.He outfitted elegant styles with bouclé and silks. Take a look.
Malan Breton at Style Fashion Week
Malan Breton kicked off Style Fashion Week March 9 with a presentation of his Fall Winter 2017 line “The 7 Deadly Sins.” Take a look.
True Religion’s Non-Conforming Ambassadors
The faces of True Religion's This is True campaign; Nikkie Lane, Tommy Lee and Herizen F. Guardiola.
Retailers Anxious over Travel Ban
Retail
Anxiety over a “Trump Slump” in tourism to the United States has become an issue, and California retailers have wondered if a travel ban initiated by the Trump Administration could affect them.
What’s Going On With Westfield Massive Topanga Project?
Westfield's Topanga Project
In September 2015, Westfield unveiled a $350 million The Village at Westfield Topanga project adjacent to its luxe Westfield Topanga mall, 26 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. While wrapping up this project, the international mall giant was in the midst of planning an even bigger project in the Topanga area.
Shahid to Lead LAMM Trade Show
Trade Shows
Longtime assistant show director Sannia Shahid was recently named show director for the Los Angeles Men’s Market. She will run the upcoming LAMM, which is scheduled for March 28–29 in the California Market Center showroom building in downtown Los Angeles.
Apparel Sales Stall at 3 Percent, Athleisure Remains Influential, NPD Says
Retail
U.S. apparel industry sales increased 3 percent to $218.7 billion in 2016, according to market researchers The NPD Group in a March 6 statement.
Style Fashion Week Extravaganza with Zumanity & Insomniac
Style Fashion Week has produced runway events for events for years, but its upcoming LA Fashion Week group of shows, it partners with Zumanity and Insomniac to put on a big party.
Hermès’ Walks in DTLA
A hit song from the 1980s claimed “No One Walks In L.A,” but heritage brand Hermès does.
Naked Princess Moving Out of Flagship
Retail
The Naked Princess lingerie, loungewear and beauty label will be moving out of its sprawling West Hollywood, Calif., flagship, according to a statement from the brand.
Nasty Gal Founder’s Girlboss Rally
During a season of women’s marches and political actions, Sophia Amoruso put together the first Girlboss Rally
Meet Dapper Boi
There's a new subculture; Bois. San Diego's Dapper Boi plans to outfit some of them.
Post Oscar, Colleen Atwood at Beverly Center’s Snoopy Fashion Exhibit
Pen and ink is not good enough for some cartoon characters. Some have Academy Award winning costumers like Colleen Atwood designing clothes for them.
Celebs, Buzzing Business at Project
Trade Shows
It was a time for celebrity endorsements at the Feb. 21–23 run of Project Womens at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.
Pooltradeshow Remains an Alternative
Trade Shows
Pooltradeshow, which ran Feb. 21–23 at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Convention Center, kept its status as a trade show for fashion alternatives.
Post NY Fashion Week, Good Liberty Show for Krammer & Stoudt
Trade Shows
Print media is still a powerful medium. Just ask the cofounders of the Krammer & Stoudt label.
East Coast Sports Apparel Maker Mitchell & Ness Moving to Irvine
Mitchell & Ness Moving
The North American licensed sportswear business is estimated to be a multi-billion-dollar market, and Philadelphia-headquartered brand Mitchell & Ness is making a gambit for a bigger chunk of it. It is scheduled to open its first West Coast office and a distribution center by mid-March in Irvine, Calif.
AGOLDE X Opening Ceremony
AGOLDE and Opening Ceremony teamed up to design two capsule collections. The collections, called Carpenter and Graphic, took a bow on Feb. 28.
Brigade LA’s Awards Night Show With Elevate
While movie and red carpet fans were viewing the Academy Awards, more than nine emerging California lines presented a runway show at the Brigade LA boutique in downtown Los Angeles.
Farewell Fashion Bookstore
In another blow to the printed word, The Fashion Bookstore, which has been serving Los Angeles’ fashion industry and the region’s stylish people, is calling it quits.
Coach…In Virtual Reality
The runway show for Coach 1941 made fashion headlines during New York Fashion Week earlier this month, the brand unveiled a virtual reality experience of the show available at some of its stores.
Fabiana Milazzo to Melrose Place
Fabiana Milazzo’s styles have graced red carpets and glamorous salons in her native Brazil since 2000. On Feb. 22, she officially bought her brand to America.
Herbert Fink, Rodeo Drive Founding Father, 93
Retail
Herbert Fink, one of the founding fathers of Rodeo Drive’s designer and high-end retail scene, died Feb. 18 at his home in Los Angeles’ Bel-Air neighborhood. He was 93.
Brooks Joins Element
Manufacturing
David Brooks was named global general manager of Irvine, Calif.–headquartered brand Element, a division of Billabong International Ltd.
Change Is Good for Las Vegas Trade Shows
Change Is Good
Attendees returning to the Las Vegas apparel and textile trade shows found the landscape changed again.
Celine Dion's New Gig
Singer Celine Dion introduced her self-named Celine Dion Collection accessories line at the Project Womens show on Feb.21.
Ivan Bitton Style House’s Runway Show
Ivan Bitton Style House keeps a focus on emerging fashion. On Feb. 13, it produced a runway show for International Condom Day.
Outdoor Retailer to Leave Salt Lake City Over Utah Gov's Stance on Public Land
Trade Shows
The Outdoor Retailer show is saying goodbye to Salt Lake City after exhibiting there for more than 20 years, the major trade show is shopping around for new venues in other cities.
Gap Inc. Cuts 216 Jobs
Retail
Gap Inc. recently reported that it laid off 216 people at its corporate office in San Francisco.
Liberty’s Art Fashion Fundraiser For Africa
If you are going to Liberty Fashion & Lifestyle Fairs trade show in Las Vegas from Feb 20 -22, get ready for some fashion art.
Althouse Closes Store, Rejoins American Rag
Retail
Jennifer Althouse rejoined prominent retailer American Rag Cie shortly after closing her self-named Althouse boutique in downtown Los Angeles in January. She will serve the retailer as an executive vice president.
Source British Trade Show to Take a Bow
Trade Shows
London trade-show producer Upper Street Events will take new trade show Source British to the California Market Center showroom building for the LA Fashion Market. It is scheduled to run March 13–16.
Airport Retail Next Big Step for M.Fredric
Retail
For one store in the Los Angeles–headquartered M.Fredric chain, some of the busiest and most lucrative hours are between 6 and 9 a.m., long before most bricks-and-mortar retail stores are thinking about opening their doors.
Meet Sebastien of Merakai Imperial Garments
For the next generation of Los Angeles design talent, you sometimes do not have to scout farther than the people working in the metropolis’s boutiques. Meet Sebastien Amisial.
Ten Years for The Hundreds
A decade is an eternity in the boutique business, and Los Angeles’ streetwear brand The Hundreds is taking the month to celebrate its big shop.
Streetwear Farewell to Obama
We've seen the laudatory memes and Thank You notes to Barack Obama, but what about the streetwear T-shirt?
Los Angeles’ Metro/Mall Bridge Opens
There’s a new connection between public transportation and shopping.
Tommy Hilfiger’s Carnivalesque Tommyland Show
Tommy Hilfiger
Veteran designer Tommy Hilfiger showed his Tommy Hilfiger Women’s Spring ’17 line and the Tommy X Gigi capsule at Tommyland, a carnival-esque installation that took over Windward Plaza Park.
Business as Usual is Good at CALA
Trade Shows
The last time the contemporary trade show produced its San Francisco event, Nov. 8–9, it opened on the day of the hotly contested presidential election. News of Donald Trump’s win dominated the trade show, said Lauren Butler, a sales representative for the Focus Showroom.
Retail Sales Forecast To Increase in 2017, NRF Says
Retail
Business will be good in 2017, according to a forecast released Feb. 8 by National Retail Federation, the Washington D.C. trade group.
ROW DTLA's Spring Collective Blossoms
ROW DTLA, Los Angeles' newish retail enclave, recently debuted a set of new shops and creative spaces called The Spring Collective.
