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NEW YORK -- A pair of Asian apparel makers bought a majority stake in junior jeans powerhouse Mudd on Monday and, with the new backing, the company has set itself [...]

NEW YORK -- Invista, the former DuPont unit acquired by Koch Industries Inc. on April 30, cut 25 percent of the jobs at a nylon and spandex plant in Chattanooga, [...]

Warnaco Group Inc. president and chief executive officer Joseph R. Gromek said at the firm's annual meeting Wednesday that the company's business units can be broken down into two main [...]

Byline: Scott Malone, With contributions from Evan Clark NEW YORK -- Executives from Invista sketched out the new management structure this week for their apparel unit, which will be broken [...]

Byline: Scott Malone GUATEMALA CITY -- When Central American apparel executives discuss U.S. politics, they focus on whether the Central American Free Trade Agreement will pass, not the presidential election [...]

Byline: Scott Malone NEW YORK -- A crowd of about 250 people turned out at the Brooklyn Museum of Art Thursday night for a fashion show featuring 15 of the [...]

Byline: Vicki Rothrock, Scott Malone The world apparel sourcing market is in a state of flux. Major U.S. retailers and branded wholesalers face the option of buying garments from thousands [...]

NEW YORK -- Levi Strauss & Co. ended fevered speculation last week by confirming that its Dockers casual slacks brand is on the selling block, and market observers believe this [...]

NEW YORK -- Wilbur L. Ross said Thursday that, as part of his campaign to broaden the presence of International Textile Group outside the U.S., the company plans to open [...]

Byline: Scott Malone While Greensboro, N.C.-based VF Corp. has attracted the industry's attention with a major acquisition tear of late -- and it's already been named a potential buyer for [...]

I.C. Isaacs & Co. Inc. last year revised the terms of its executive contracts, ending the practice of basing bonus payments on top-line results and instead linking them to bottom-line [...]

Byline: Scott Malone Levi Strauss & Co. has appointed Paul Smith as vice president of its global tax department, effective May 24. The move comes after a year in which [...]

NEW YORK -- Gap Inc. plans to disclose today that it dropped 136 of its factory suppliers last year because they had committed violations of its code of vendor conduct. [...]

NEW YORK -- The makeover has begun at Levi Strauss & Co., including a For Sale sign on its Dockers brand. The proposed sale of Dockers is the first dramatic [...]

GUATEMALA CITY -- Apparel manufacturers in Guatemala, preparing for an onslaught of Asian competition when quotas are lifted next year, are seeking to boost factory capacities, adopt more service-intensive business [...]

Jeans and fine art don't usually intersect -- unless you're a student at New York's Parsons School of Design. A group of 17 Parsons students was given Levi's as raw [...]

NEW YORK -- In another case of consolidation in the fiber business, Lenzing AG and Tencel, two companies that spent much of the mid-Nineties bickering over the rights to produce [...]

NEW YORK -- Koch Industries Inc.'s new Invista unit, an $8.4 billion synthetic-fiber behemoth with brands such as Lycra, Coolmax, Cordura and Stainmaster, starts business today after Koch completed its [...]

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow, a day after the Bush administration rejected the AFL-CIO's petition challenging China's labor laws, sought to allay the anger of manufacturers and rejected [...]

NEW YORK -- Typically, when people talk about the 'fashion police' they're being sarcastic, but if a Louisiana legislator gets his way, police in that state could start arresting people [...]

WILMINGTON, Del. -- DuPont chairman and chief executive officer Chad Holliday said at the annual shareholder meeting here Wednesday that the pending sale of its $6.9 billion Invista fiber business [...]

NEW YORK -- The voracious VF acquisitions machine is scooping up Vans Inc. VF Corp. said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire the sneaker and 'skate-shoe' specialist in a deal [...]

NEW YORK -- Frank Tworecke, a retailer with a long history in the men's wear business, will join Warnaco Group Inc. as group president of its sportswear division. He will [...]

NEW YORK -- The Fashion Center Business Improvement District is headed into its 2005 fiscal year with a $515,000 surplus that BID officials plan to use to help complete their [...]

NEW YORK -- Unifi Inc.'s decision to close some of its plants and lay off workers led to hefty charges that drove the company $50 million into the red in [...]

NEW YORK -- The Fashion Institute of Technology has agreed to purchase a Midtown Manhattan building that is to serve as a dormitory. FIT is in contract on a building [...]

NEW YORK -- Delta Woodside Industries, the last U.S. apparel fabric mill to retain its spot on the New York Stock Exchange, will be delisted before the start of trading [...]

NEW YORK -- A crowd of more than 100 employees from Bloomingdale's Manhattan flagship took to the streets Tuesday to call for better pay and benefits in their new union [...]

NEW YORK -- UNITE and Gap Inc. reached a truce on Monday. The union and the San Francisco retailer said they were working together to support an effort by El [...]

With jeans this season, it's the more the merrier. With dozens of brands jumping into the jeans business in recent seasons, one could easily think that overloaded specialty store and [...]

Continuing sales declines in all three of its divisions drove denim maker Avondale Mills Inc. deeper into the red in its second quarter. In a recent filing with the Securities [...]

NEW YORK -- After concluding that a year's worth of negotiations had bogged down, fiber maker Unifi Inc. has scrapped plans to form a polyester joint venture in China and [...]

NEW YORK -- Tonight, Cotton Incorporated bids farewell to 'The Fabric of Our Lives,' which has been the tag line for its consumer advertising for 14 years. On Tuesday, executives [...]

NEW YORK -- Phil Marineau's latest nightmare is $3 a gallon gas prices. The president and chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co. has been struggling to right the [...]

NEW YORK -- UNITE said Monday it had won the right to organize some 200 workers at Swedish retailer H&M's U.S. distribution centers in Secaucus, N.J., and Cheshire, Conn. The [...]

NEW YORK -- Around the world, apparel manufacturers are ticking off the days until the quota system ends and wondering what they can do to fend off the competitive onslaught [...]

NEW YORK -- Invista's 18,000 employees have three more weeks to figure out what to do with their DuPont business cards and stationery. The Wilmington, Del.-based chemical giant, which is [...]

As Hong Kong-based sourcing giant Li & Fung nears the completion of its second licensing deal with Levi Strauss & Co., company executives said they plan to make brand management [...]

Casual Male Retail Group Inc., which operates 58 Levi's and Dockers by Designs outlet stores, last week named Jim Frain, senior vice president of marketing at Chico's FAS Inc., to [...]

Greensboro, N.C.-based VF Corp. last year trimmed the bonuses it paid to its top five executives, with chairman and chief executive officer Mackey J. McDonald seeing his compensation slip 16.9 [...]

NEW YORK -- The head of an international apparel labor union last week blasted what he called an effort by South Korean investors to prevent the rise of labor unions [...]

NEW YORK -- Scott Morrison, formerly of Paper Denim & Cloth, has launched a premium jeans label called Earnest Sewn. The new line will retail from $182 to $240 and [...]

NEW YORK -- In a bid to better coordinate industry trade show activities, the New York Fashion Council is planning a meeting this week to allow show organizers to discuss [...]

NEW YORK -- A crowd of several dozen residents of Chinatown and the Lower East Side gathered outside a state office building in Manhattan Wednesday to complain that $1.2 billion [...]

NEW YORK -- Citing the need to lighten a crushing debt load, Dan River Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday in Georgia's Northern District court. But company officials emphasized [...]

When a shopper shells out $200 for a pair of dungarees, she often is expecting to get something close to perfection. But Scott Morrison is betting that some shoppers are [...]

I.C. Isaacs & Co., which produces Marithe & Francois Girbaud jeans in North America, trimmed its losses last year, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [...]

NEW YORK -- After facing several seasons of criticism that it was trying too hard to be cool in its ads, Levi Strauss & Co. has turned to real people [...]

NEW YORK-Theodor V. Shumeyko, a public relations man remembered for everything from building a miniature textiles mill on Sixth Avenue to sending a reporter a toilet seat in recognition of [...]

NEW YORK-Investor Wilbur L. Ross christened his second conglomerate last week. During a news conference in Greensboro, N.C., Ross said he was merging Burlington Industries and Cone Mills into a [...]