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Fashion Week Los Angeles

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NICK GRUBER APPOINTED TO FASHION WEEK LA COMMITTEE

NICK GRUBER APPOINTED TO FASHION WEEK LA COMMITTEE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Jeremy Bamidele Fashion Week Los Angeles +1 (323) 844-FWLA [email protected] http://fwla.com NICK GRUBER APPOINTED TO FASHION WEEK LA COMMITTEE The Board of Advisors for Fashion Week Los Angeles (FWLA) announced today that actor, and international model, Nick Gruber has been appointed to the Screening Committee. The Board of Advisors for FWLA recognizes that Gruber has…

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EMILY WARBURTON-ADAMS APPOINTED TO FWLA COMMITTEE

EMILY WARBURTON-ADAMS APPOINTED TO FWLA COMMITTEE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jeremy Bamidele Fashion Week Los Angeles +1 (323) 844-FWLA [email protected] http://fwla.com

EMILY WARBURTON-ADAMS APPOINTED TO FASHION WEEK LA COMMITTEE

The Board of Advisors for Fashion Week Los Angeles (FWLA) announced today that actress, model and fashion blogger Emily Warburton-Adams has been appointed to the Screening Committee. The Board of Advisors for FWLA…

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NEW IMAGES TO AWS S3

NEW IMAGES TO AWS S3

FWLA Now stores Images on Amazon Web Service S3

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Income Disparity in the Fashion Industry

Income Disparity in the Fashion Industry

LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles employs a quarter of all fashion designers nationally and is the number one apparel manufacturing hub in the country, employing over twice as many apparel manufacturers as New York City. This makes income disparities between the highest wage earners and the lowest wage earners in the industry of particular importance to the region.

The national median designer salary is…

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FWLA Market Statistics

Registration Statistics

104,973 registration invitation database

70,000 registries

Approve 5,000 approved registrations last season (FW2016)

Demographics, Geographics, and Psychographics (Based on 2014 data)

Primary Geographic: Los Angeles

Fourth largest fashion market globally with $46 Billion in apparel entering its ports annually

No.1 apparel manufacturing market in the U.S. with $18 Billioni…

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FWLA: Closed to the Public

FWLA: Closed to the Public

LOS ANGELES—Fashion Week Los Angeles (FWLA) is returning fashion week to its industry roots. Unlike the other fashion productions in the city of angels, FWLA is closed to the public.

This decision to keep the production closed preceded New York Fashion Week falling from the number one highest grossing fashion week globally.

It is speculated that NYFW’s fall was the result of opening up the event…

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FWLA: Securing the Fashion Manufacturing Capital

FWLA: Securing the Fashion Manufacturing Capital

LOS ANGELES—“Fashion Week Los Angeles (FWLA) is offering fashion designers discounts to produce and source locally and domestically,” states FWLA Executive Producer Gio Ferrigno. “By encouraging domestic production and purchases, we seek to keep fashion revenue circulating in the Los Angeles basin.”

Whereas apparel manufacturing has declined over 85 percent nationally since 1990, Los Angeles’…

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New Opportunities for Designers to Use Silk

New Opportunities for Designers to Use Silk

On July 8, 2016 Emerging Textiles issued their quarterly report indicating silk prices have soared in the last weeks in China, due to anticipations of higher prices and the consecutive accumulation of inventories, although market fundamentals remain very bearish.

Emerging Textiles Quarterly Silk Report Indicate a potential resurgence for designers to use silk.

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FWLA|GENERAL ADMISSION

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General Admission

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HM Million Dollar Grant to Recycle Cotton (Update)

HM Million Dollar Grant to Recycle Cotton (Update)

In August of 2015 H&M announced a million dollar grant to be split by five winners.  There was a ton of press coverage, especially because the difficulty of reusing recycled cotton in apparel is a major problem facing sustainability; especially of a fast-fashion empire like H&M.  Obviously, one of the major complaints we noticed circulating about the claim was that a million dollars to solve such…

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FWLA Opens Designer Applications

FWLA Opens Designer Applications

The most anticipated fashion event of the year opens applications for fashion designers and apparel brands to present their Autumn/Winter 2016 press previews and/or their Spring/Summer 2017 collections for the Q3 buying season.  FWLA starts on October 16, 2016, in Downtown Los Angeles.  Brands can apply online at http://fwla.com

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FWLA Holiday Party

Fashion Week Los Angeles’ official holiday party selected Blind Dragon in West Hollywood as the official location for the December 18th invitation-only event.

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UCA becomes Agency of Record for Shear Nirvana

UCA becomes Agency of Record for Shear Nirvana

UCA becomes Agency of Record for Shear Nirvana

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