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Marketplace comments on LA Fashion Week vs Month
Our friends at the California Apparel News recently surveyed the producers of LA Fashion Week events. Article here. We are glad to hear there may be a return to a more condensed time frame for fashion week activities. We’ve long supported an organized and centralized hub for fashion week events, particularly the calendar, registration More...
Welcome to LA Fashion MONTH
The date spread of the 70+ events on the fashion week calendar this season is either maddening or magical, depending on who you ask. If you’re a visiting buyer or journalist interested in coming from out of town to cover the collections, you’re faced with a tough decision about when to come and what really More...
Villaraigosa Press Conference Today
You’re invited: City of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has scheduled a press conference for Tuesday, October 6 at 10am on the steps of the California Market Center, the long time hub of downtown’s wholesale apparel marketplace and largest property in the Fashion District. Scheduled to join him are LA-based designers Randolph Duke and Max Azria More...
Registration Now Open
Testing of a new pan-event LA Fashion Week registration service is open now through October 10 at FashionWeekLA.com. The purpose is to facilitate connections for designers and press and to better calibrate event information for both fashion fans and the industry insiders who rely on the calendar site. With growing interest by consumers in the More...
LA FASHION AWARDS Spotlight Those You Need to Know
The most widely recognized and well-respected California-based designers, editors, retailers and brands will tell you that neither LA Fashion Week nor LA Market Week represent the very best of California fashion. It is for this reason that the Los Angeles Fashion Awards were created in 2005. This annual recognition program has More...
Gen Art + Rock Media = RMGA, LLC
The rumors swirled for weeks, and FashionWeekLA.com sat mum on the scoop until the principals could publicly confirm that Gen Art would indeed make a serious calendar shift from its usual opening spot on the LA Fashion Week calendar to the opening spot of Rock Fashion Week’s debut at Paramount Studios at the end More...
Los Angeles Fashion Week
Los Angeles Fashion Week Spring ‘10 collections are taking place throughout the month, with events anchored in either Downtown (Oct 12-20) or Hollywood (Oct 28-31). Beverly Hills jumps in with Walk of Style on October 22. More...
LA Fashion Call to Action
In June we invited LA fashion professionals to a reception on the beautiful beachside rooftop of the new Hotel Erwin in Santa Monica. The purpose? To contemplate the opportunities of a more decentralized LA Fashion Week than in years past, with a few key show hubs and lots of “off site” happenings in hillside More...
BizBash Interview with LA’s Fashion Calendar Girl
Since 2002 FashionWeekLA.com’s Jennifer Uner has been organizing the most comprehensive calendar of LA Fashion Week events across the city. Between the dissolution of CLAD, the market test of IMG, and the rise and fall of fashion at Smashbox Studios, she’s seen a lot. Add to that another 15 years in executive positions at More...
