New York Textile Resource Guide
Apparel Information Management System (AIMS) offers fully integrated software solutions for apparel importers, distributors, and manufacturers of apparel, accessories, footwear, home furnishings, and other sewn goods. AIMS software provides everything you need to streamline, automate, and enhance key activities across your entire business. A Microsoft Gold-certified partner and QuickBooks Gold developer, AIMS provides the most professional, up-to-date program possible, including integration with QuickBooks, Easy-Shop online retail shopping cart, WebLink online wholesale shopping cart, and the easiest-to-use EDI. AIMS delivers all of this at affordable prices. Visit www.aimstsi.com, e-mail sales@aimstsi.com, or call (310) 361-5710.Since 1961, ASD has been bringing buyers and sellers together to create the most dynamic B2B merchandise marketplace in the industry. Whether you’re looking for value merchandise, apparel, style and beauty accessories, home decor, gifts, or jewelry, ASD has a show to meet your needs. Upcoming 2011 Las Vegas dates are Feb. 27 to March 2 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center and the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Liquidation Expo takes place in June, ASD Las Vegas takes place July 31 to Aug. 3, and ASD East takes place Sept. 11–13. www.asdonline.com.
Britannia Mills Ltd. makes better fine knit plain goods and caters to bridge to designer womenswear markets. It specializes in a handful of fabrics and makes everything about them superior. Britannia selects the highest-grade yarns and adds manufacturing processes to make amazing fabrics. Britannia runs extra-fine washable Merino wool, viscose matte jersey, rayon/spandex jersey, and rayon “Ponte deLicious,” along with other great knits. If you insist on goods that perform better, wear better, wash better, and feel best, demand Britannia. Britannia is excited to announce that Dan Sassower is now showing the line. www.britanniamillsltd.com.Buhler Quality Yarns Corp. provides ringspun yarn with 100 percent Supima, 100 percent Micro Modal, 50/50 Supima Micro Modal, and 50/50 Supima Outlast. Yarn count ranges from 12/1 Ne to 90/1 Ne. New fabrics include Micro Tencel, Royal Spun, and fashion slub yarns in Supima and Supima Micro Modal that are super-soft, comfortable, durable, bright, and extraordinarily strong. Popular counts and blends are inventoried, and there are no minimums for samples. Buhler provides service, quality, innovation, and flexibility. For more information, visit www.buhleryarns.com. Five seasons a year, discerning buyers flock to the California Market Center (CMC) for Los Angeles Fashion Market, the West Coast’s premier destination for thousands of apparel, shoe, and accessories collections displayed in hundreds of the CMC’s showrooms and featured trade shows. This year we’ve added SELECT Contemporary Tradeshow to our array of resources, which also includes FOCUS Apparel & Accessories Show, TRANSIT LA Shoe Show, and LA Kids’ Market. L.A. Fashion Market at the CMC now offers visiting retailers and fashion brands more show options then ever to exhibit in and shop from. Upcoming market dates include Jan. 17–20, March 14–17, June 13–16, Aug. 8–11, and Oct. 17–20. Visit www.californiamarketcenter.com/fashion for more information.The Cooper Design Space, at the corner of Ninth and Los Angeles streets in the heart of L.A.’s Fashion District, hosts a space that embraces cross-pollination among L.A. lifestyle businesses in fashion, media arts, and publishing. The building is 11 stories tall and, having been built in 1927, represents the city’s history of creative commerce. It’s a space that encourages fluidity across functions by offering an event venue, offices, and showrooms in a single location. 2011 market dates are Jan. 17–20, March 14–17, June 13–16, Aug. 8–10, and Oct. 17–20. www.cooperdesignspace.com. The Gerry Building is in The Intersection of Ninth and Los Angeles streets in the heart of the Los Angeles Fashion District. The historic building has been completely renovated and reborn, marrying retro-elegance with modern details. Inside and out, the Gerry Building has been updated with new materials, technology, and finishes to create a collection of contemporary showrooms and design suites that blend the new and old like nowhere else in the Fashion District. For leasing information, contact David Muir at (213) 270-2244 or e-mail David.Muir@daumcommerical.com. The property website is www.GerryBuilding.com.As the oldest privately held factoring company in the Southwest, Goodman Factors provides recourse and nonrecourse invoice factoring for businesses with monthly sales volumes of $10,000 to $2 million. Services include invoice and cash posting, credit and collection service, and cash advances on invoices upon shipment. Due to its relatively small size and centralized-management philosophy, its clients often deal directly with company management/ownership. Its size also enables it to provide flexible arrangements and quick decisions. For more information, visit www.goodmanfactors.com.As a premier destination for buyers and retailers from all over the world, the L.A. Fashion District offers a rich inventory of options when it comes to doing business here—from the designer showrooms located at Ninth and Los Angeles streets to over 2,000 independent wholesalers and various apparel marts spread throughout the 100-block district. There is something for everyone. Visit the new L.A. Fashion District website at www.fashiondistrict.org for visitor information and resource links. Then shop over 4,000 listings in the January Fashion Market Wholesale Lines Directory. The Los Angeles International Textile Show (L.A. Textile) is the fashion industry’s West Coast destination for premier textile, design, and production resources. Offering hundreds of fabric collections and design services from around the globe, the caliber of resources and fashion direction is presented with our contemporary designer audience in mind. Our trend forum, curated by trend partner WGSN, and complimentary seminar program are designed to inform and inspire. Upcoming show dates are March 28–30 and Sept. 26–28. Visit www.californiamarketcenter.com/latextile for more information.The MAGIC Marketplace is the pre-eminent trade event in the international fashion industry, hosting global buyers and sellers of men’s, women’s, and children’s apparel, footwear, accessories, and sourcing resources. As an incubator of fashion, MAGIC is where new trends surface and develop into what will be seen on the consumer. The show’s goal is to connect and inspire the fashion community and fuse diverse trends, while offering unbeatable service to its customers. The next show dates are Feb. 14–16, 2011 (SOURCING at MAGIC opens on Feb. 13) at the Las Vegas Convention Center and Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. www.magiconline.com.MAGIC is the pre-eminent trade event in the international fashion industry, assembling thousands of buyers and sellers of apparel, footwear, and accessories twice a year in Las Vegas. Merchandised categorically, MAGIC Men’s allows buyers to shop with ease, moving within the unique lifestyle environments of MENSWEAR, PREMIUM, STREET UNLIMITED, AND S.L.A.T.E., and spanning the designer, tailored, casual, denim, sportswear, outerwear, active, and streetwear categories. Upcoming show dates are Feb. 14–16 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. www.magiconline.com.In the heart of Los Angeles’ Fashion District is the landmark New Mart Building. The showrooms of the New Mart represent the most exclusive and coveted contemporary lines from an international array of designers and manufacturers. The New Mart is unique in both architecture and style. The intimate setting creates a user-friendly experience for visitors. Each of its glass-fronted, uniquely designed showrooms provides a buying adventure that cannot be experienced at any other showroom destination. The New Mart is open year-round to the wholesale trade only and has 95 showrooms featuring hundreds of contemporary women’s and men’s apparel and accessory resources. Visit www.newmart.net.The OffPrice Shows are the premier trade shows for off-price apparel, accessories, and footwear. The wholesalers and jobbers at its Las Vegas trade shows carry men’s, women’s, and children’s apparel at 20 percent to 70 percent below the original manufacturer’s wholesale price. The OffPrice Show is not just about the below-wholesale values on a wide range of merchandise, but the treasure hunt (as they have become known to buyers) is very much about fashion apparel, accessories, and other fashionable items that also happen to have the best price points. Upcoming show dates are Feb. 11–14 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas. www.offpriceshow.com.Launched in 2003 and held biannually in New York and Las Vegas, Project is the world’s pre-eminent advanced contemporary fashion event. The show brings together the world’s most innovative, advanced contemporary brands and the most prestigious and forward-thinking global retailers. Upcoming show dates are Jan. 16–18 at 82 Mercer St. in New York and Feb. 14–16 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Visit www.project.magiconline.com for more information.Stretchtex is a world-leading manufacturer of chlorine-resistant and sun-protective swimwear and sportswear fabrics. Stretchtex offers a wide range of superior-quality performance fabrics. Its innovative products are designed and created to meet the most demanding specifications and performance criteria. Stretchtex’s swimwear fabrics are world class, featuring maximum chlorine resistance, maximum UV protection, maximum durability, excellent shape retention, excellent color fastness, super-soft hand feel, and weight range from 160 to 210 gsm. Stretchtex is a supplier to major international swimwear brands and to Beijing Olympic medal winners in water polo and triathalon. Stretchtex is the home of premier swimwear fabric brand Chlorobanreg;. For more information, contact Nathan, the North American representative, at Nathan@stretchtex.com.au or call (416) 856-6119 for a sample.
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