Search

Companies can benefit from top executives who start their positions with little business experience. Relatively inexperienced leaders are more likely to be creative because they are not stifled by the corporate culture or by traditional business practices. Two female company heads are profiled.

When Linda Allard stepped off a Greyhound bus and onto Seventh Avenue 40 years ago, a woman in her 20s with a suitcase in hand and $200 in her pocket, [...]

Men's wear fashion designers, Charlie Tak, Melissa McElrath and Freddy Rojas are the new faces on the design scene to watch. Charlie Tak is based in Santa Monica, CA, and offers men's and women's sportswear at wholesale prices from between $9 for T-shirts to $80 for jackets. Melissa McElrath produces 'Neo-alternative sportswear from hell' that sells for between $25 to $100. Freddy Rojas is self-financed and produces a directional line of men's sportswear that it targeted towards 18 to 35 year-old creative males., Venus In Furs DESIGNER: Charlie Talk PRODUCT: men's and women's contemporary sportswear BASED: Santa Monica, Calif. IN BUSINESS: eight months FINANCIAL BACKING: self-financed PRODUCED: Los Angeles and Santa Ana, Calif. [...]

Vintage sportswear maker Moonlight Graham Inc has named Steve Cohen as vice-president of sales and marketing. Cohen, the former president of Sul Denim and vice-president of sales for Lucky Brand [...]

Basketball apparel maker Jordan has named Fran Boller as its new director of apparel and Gemo Wong as its new apparel design director. Boller, the former vice-president of G-III Apparel [...]

NEW YORK -- 'Salt runs through our language, our history, our veins and now our jeans' reads the motto of the new Salt Works denim company. The New York-based line [...]

NEW YORK -- Lucy Activewear, the 13-unit chain that was one of the first retailers devoted exclusively to active women, has named a new president and chief executive officer, Michael [...]

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. - What began as a dress shirt company in 1939 in Lexington, Mo., has grown to become one of the nation's premier logoed apparel manufacturers. During 2004, Dunbrooke [...]

LOS ANGELES -- J. Lindeberg, the London-based better sportswear company, is expanding its global reach with five signature stores from here to Hong Kong as part of an initiative to [...]

Mossimo has tapped Mali Shrinivas to serve as CFO, replacing Manny Marrero, who has stepped down. Shrinivas, 43, comes to the Santa Monica, Calif.-based firm from Deloitte Consulting, where he [...]

HARTWELL, Ga. - Hartwell Industries, a leading provider of decorated and undecorated apparel to the promotional products industry, recently announced the hiring of Rick Cesere as Executive Vice President of [...]

DENVER - Trimark Sportswear Group recently welcomed Heidi Forsythe to its Colorado sales team. Forsythe has over 15 years experience in sales with 7 years in the apparel business. Her [...]

Junior denim and sportswear resource Hot Kiss on Monday named industry veteran Jay Kester president. In the newly created position Kester will oversee the sales and distribution of the Los [...]

Eden Richman was promoted to the new position of vice-president, national sales, for Van Heusen Sportswear at Phillips-Van Heusen. She joined the company six years ago as a sales account [...]

MORE WINSTON SALONS: Harry Winston is adding two more salons later this year. The venerable Fifth Avenue jeweler will open a 1,000-square-foot salon at The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace [...]

OTB Jeanswear has licensed CSG Apparel to design young men's and boys' knitwear tops beginning with fall 2004. The OTB staff will manage sales. CSG, headed by president George Needleman, [...]

KIMMEL TO BE HONORED: The Anti-Defamation League will honor Sidney Kimmel, chairman and founder of Jones Apparel Group, with its Eastern Pennsylvania/Delaware region's 26th annual Americanism Award. The award will [...]

Since arriving in North America in 1996, the Mavi brand has grown into a $40 million enterprise on the continent. But over the past year, its growth track in the [...]

Skechers Inks First Canadian Apparel License Manhattan Beach, Calif-based Skechers has partnered with Canadian firm Multigroup Corp. to manufacture Skechers-branded infant, toddler and children's apparel in Canada. Under the terms [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Mossimo Inc., the 16-year-old apparel line sold exclusively in the U.S. to Target stores, said Thursday that Gia Castrogiovanni, chief operating officer, treasurer and secretary, resigned 'to [...]

Maria Stefan has joined Ellesse, USA as president, succeeding Bill Sweeney, who remains as consultant. Previously, Stefan was executive director and vice-president of global business development for SGMA International, the [...]

Ellesse, USA, New York, has tapped 21-year sporting goods veteran Maria Stefan as its new president in an effort to fuel growth in the U.S. market. Stefan, who had been [...]

NEW YORK -- With the help of Georges Wichner, Vivienne Tam hopes to grow in a major way. Wichner has been appointed to the newly created position of chief executive [...]

ST. LOUIS - California Manufacturing Co., maker of the California Outerwear line for the promotional products marketplace, will expand into sportswear with its all-new 2004 catalog, adding the label Horizon [...]

NEW YORK -- Herbert Gallen and Linda Allard, the dynamic Seventh Avenue couple who dressed America's first generation of female executives in working clothes that grew up -- along with [...]

DENVER - Nancy Haley, co-founder and CEO of Teh?ma, was recently honored by Ernst & Young with the Entrepreneur of the Year award in the retail/manufacturing category. Teh?ma is a [...]

With the summer season in full swing, many enterprising promotional products distributors are taking advantage of the robust golf market to get in full swing on golf shirt sales, as [...]

MONROE, N.C. - Pine Island Sportswear Ltd. and Concepts by Pine Island announce the following organizational changes: Concepts by Pine Island has promoted Jamie Winter to President of Concepts. He [...]

When she's not designing clothing, Allard, who is design director for Ellen Tracy, is an avid gardener - and Imagine, the newest Ellen Tracy fragrance, is inspired by her favorite [...]

ELLESSE BOLSTERS TEAM: Ellesse, the 40-year-old Italian athletic brand, has beefed up its design team for this month's relaunch. Newcomers include Carlo Grippo, director of apparel and accessories; Chris Lee, [...]

After serving as an executive management consultant to Stahls', Inc., Ben Knoester now serves as president. Knoester oversees operations at the company's St. Clair Shores, Mich. headquarters. A 12-year veteran [...]

It's all part of the unique modular manufacturing process called ARTS2 that sets Nygard apart from the competition. ARTS2, the company's Automatic Reorder to Sales continuous replenishing program, links the [...]

NEW YORK -- Rena Franklin, president of Alvin Valley, a young designer sportswear company in SoHo, died Friday at Mt. Sinai Medical Center here. The cause of death was breast [...]

NEW YORK -- Jeanne S. Campbell, a designer who played a role in the Fifties sportswear movement in America that included more famous names like Bonnie Cashin and Claire McCardell, [...]

NEW YORK -- To many, Iris LeBron's job is one to envy. Three times a year she leaves this country to scour remote boutiques in Saint-Tropez and other romantic locales [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Next to a meter maid, a swimwear designer may be one of the more thankless jobs out there. No woman looks forward to standing in a dressing [...]

Anna Alfaro, designer of Hartmarx' defunct Pringle of Scotland collection, has been named head designer for Jack Nicklaus […]

There are few women who are as synonymous with swimming as the iconic Esther Williams. The svelte screen legend, now a feisty and fit 80-year-old, is as much a part [...]

The Neckwear Association of America will hold its 25th annual Achievement Awards luncheon Tuesday, June 18, at the Sheraton New York Hotel. Those being honored are Tony Brown of Macy's [...]

Charles Howell III has finalized his sponsorship agreement with J.Lindeberg OC, according to a company spokesperson. Howell will wear items from J.Lindeberg OC and Stockholm collections both on and off […]

Hartmarx executives have tapped Rob Stein to re-tool and re-launch the company's licensed Nicklaus brand as Jack Nicklaus, a golf and sportswear collection for green-grass stores. The collection--replacing current moderately […]

NEW YORK -- After 25 years, Donna Corey, a longtime insider in the swimwear market, has exited Gottex. She first joined the company as a showroom model and worked her [...]

Some people think it's a good thing when golf apparel is sold as "lifestyle" apparel, something you can wear off course as easily as on. Don't count Eddie Fadel among […]

LOS ANGELES -- Two years after resigning as CEO of Mossimo Inc. as it sealed its licensing deal with Target Corp., Edwin Lewis has rejoined the firm as vice-chairman and [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Is history repeating itself? Two years after resigning as chief executive officer of Mossimo Inc. as it sealed its licensing deal with Target Corp., Edwin Lewis has [...]

NEW YORK -- Benjamin Gillikin, who has directed Thierry Mugler's fragrance business in the U.S. since 1993, has been promoted to take over the apparel and accessories aspects of the [...]

Columbia Sportswear Co. will be outfitting the ESPN broadcasters at ESPN's Winter X Games VI. The event takes place Jan. 18-20 in Aspen, Colo., and ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN International and [...]

MILAN -- Belfe, a company known for its high-end sportswear with an urban edge, has named Thierry Andretta as chief executive officer to reposition the brand by upgrading quality and [...]

NEW YORK -- Devanlay, the Paris-based holder of the worldwide license for Lacoste apparel, has named Robert Siegel chairman of its U.S. subsidiary, Devanlay Inc. Siegel has relinquished his position [...]