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Buhler Quality Yarns Corp. ensures the highest-quality products backed by environmental sensitivity and around-the-clock support throughout your supply chain. Our distinctive portfolio offers Supima, MicroTencel®, MicroModal®, Supima Outlast, and various blends, all certified by Oeko-Tex 100, which ensures they are safe for all applications. Additional yarns include Siro Spun and fashion slub yarns in Supima and Supima MicroModal; all offer comfort, durability, and strength. Bring your product to market backed by decades of experience, dependable industry relationships, and unsurpassed technical support. (706) 367-9834 or www.buhleryarns.com
Five seasons a year, buyers from around the globe flock to the California Market Center (CMC) for Los Angeles Fashion Market, the West Coast’s premier destination for thousands of apparel, gift and lifestyle collections displayed in hundreds of the CMC’s showrooms and featured trade shows. Our array of resources includes SELECT Contemporary Tradeshow, FOCUS Apparel & Accessories Show, TRANSIT LA Shoe Show, LA Kids Market, and the Gift, Home & Design showcase. L.A. Fashion Market at the CMC now offers visiting retailers and brands more show options then ever to exhibit in and shop from. Upcoming market dates are Aug. 13–16 and Oct. 15–18. Visit www.californiamarketcenter.com/fashion formore information.
Dallas Apparel & Accessories Markets are held five times each year at Dallas Market Center. As the economy warms up, Dallas continues to welcome thousands of buyers to each market, 70 percent of whom don’t shop other apparel marketplaces. Likewise, the Dallas Market Center has recently added additional key rep groups/lines from California to further establish itself as a destination for the leading edge of fashion. For the latest news and upcoming marketdates, visit www.dallasmarketcenter.com.
In 2005 Mikey Koffman founded The Gallery Los Angeles, a fullservice marketing and event-production company. After producing fashion shows in Los Angeles and New York, Koffman produced shows at Mercedes-Benz Fashion week at Smashbox Studios in Los Angeles. Following Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week’s final season, Koffman launched Los Angeles Fashion Weekend and moved the location to Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood. Los Angeles Fashion Weekend will also be in Las Vegas. On Aug. 22, when you’re in town for the trade shows, enjoy GetWet@Rumor, an openbar pool party with live DJ at the Rumor Boutique Hotel. (455 E. Harmon Ave., Las Vegas, 6–10 p.m.) RSVP to rsvp@losangelesfw.com, call (323) 330-1845 or visit losangelesfw.com.
Launched in 2007 as a basics label, Monrow has quickly risen to the top. The ever-growing brand now produces 11 collections a year, which include much more than your average basics. In addition to their women’s collection, a collaboration with Amber Valletta, Monrow recently introduced Monrow Men’s, Monrow mini, and Monrow Classics, a return to the essence of label, offering the “classics” (tees, sweatshirts, sweats) in an array of 16 colors, all year long. Though designers Michelle Wenke and Megan George are constantly inspired by the world around them, their passion will always lie in Monrow’s fundamentals—quintessential wardrobe staples with attention to fit, fabric, technique, and innovative prints. This unparalleled quality and in-depth knowledge of design and manufacturing detail is what makes Monrow a front-runner in theworld of contemporary apparel. www.monrowattire.com
Naked Princess is a world curated with lovely boudoir luxuries that enchant, enlighten, and engage the senses and the imagination with exquisite design details, collection-based private blend scents and romantic inspiration. Naked Princess creates luxury lingerie made in the USA from the finest French and Italian laces, silks, and trim. Along with its intimate-apparel line, Naked Princess has released two beauty and body collections with custom swooninducing fragrances that do not sacrifice health for luxury. All of its beautiful products are housed in keepsake vessels, with formulas free of parabens, phthalates, talcs, and gmo’s. Naked Princess also offers consumers an exquisite array of hand-selected gifts,books, and paperie on its custom atelier at www.nakedprincess.com.
No matter what it is that you‚re looking for, you’ll find it at the OFFPRICE Show in Las Vegas. OFFPRICE serves the retail industry as a dynamic order-writing show that connects apparel retail buyers of all sizes with the leading off-price specialists in 20 percent to 70 percent below wholesale clothing, accessories, and footwear. Taking place at the Sands Expo and Convention Center Aug. 19–22, with nearly 500 vendors and over 1,200 booths and attracting more than 11,000 industry professionals, it is the largest off-price show in the country. Many national and regional retailers—such as Conway, Citi Trends, Beall’s, and RH Reny, Inc.—actively shop each and every OFFPRICE Show. No matter what kind of the latest fashions you‚re seeking—men’s, women’s, children’s, accessories, or footwear—you’ll find it all at the OFFPRICE Show! For moreinformation, check out the recently redesigned OffPriceShow.com.
Specialty Trade Shows is a small boutique-type company that specializes in trade shows for unique segments of the apparel industry. For 30 years, we have successfully satisfied the needs of buyers and vendors who were really not welcomed or could not properly work, specialty accounts, and special sizes at mass-market events. It has been sold out for six years running. Buyers from around the world come to see over 2,000 vendors selling misses, plus, tall, and petite, plus accessories and more accessories. KIDShow at Bally’s in Las Vegas Aug. 20–22 and WWIN (Womens- Wear in Nevada) at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino Aug. 20–23. The Las Vegas International Lingerie Show runs Sept. 10–12 at theRio Hotel. www.spectrade.com
Last February, UnSpoken Lingerie was chosen as a top emerging designer by WWD/MAGIC. Six months later, UnSpoken Lingerie can be found in many boutiques and on-line. Always ontrend and daring, this luxurious lingerie, sleepwear, and loungewear collection empowers women to feel confident, sexy, flirty, and fun. The collection features gowns, robes, loungewear made from the finest silks with pieces that can be worn as both boudoir and outerwear. www.unspokenlingerie.com or (310) 451-2099.
Located in the style capital of the world, Ya Los Angeles works with a professional and eclectic team of designers who create a wide variety of styles that complement every woman. Ya is a renowned and respected name on the market, specializing in current and cutting-edge trends. Our mission is to address the different needs, desires, and moods for every woman, so that not only the clothes, but the woman, shines. We strive to provide for the ever-changing styles we all need and want: casual, creative, playful, professional, sexy, sophisticated, trendy, and unique. Our extensive selection includes tops, pants, skirts, dresses, outerwear and other specialty items. Here at Ya, we make sure to only select the best and most stylish pieces from each of our collections to sell on our site. The extensive array of truly unique styles available here will be immediately apparent to our customers. We feature new, striking styles constantly. We are focused on establishing strong and long-lasting relationships with our clients. We look forward to serving you. www.yalosangeles.com
Zen Mechanics, launched in 2011 out of Los Angeles, California, offers a sleek modern look combined with smart silhouettes and fresh “mixed-media” fabrications all made in the USA. The Zen Mechanics direction is contemporary elegance while bordering on an edgier side of men’s American fashion. The brand boasts itself on pushing the boundaries of traditional menswear, targeting the collection toward a savvy personality, someone who isn’t afraid to make bold innovative style statements and stand out amongst the crowd. Represented by The Park Showroom: sales@theparkshowroom. com; (213) 250-6200 (West Coast); (646) 329-9890 (East Coast). Visit www.zenmechanics.com.
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