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Take a close look at California's leading textile firms, and you'll find success stories based on creativity, unique products, and perhaps most importantly, a willingness to work close to market [...]

Serve It Up On the menu for fall 2010: a little bit of everything. The cream of the fabric crop ran the gamut from artsy and innovative to tried and [...]

By night, it's a full-on party zone, with parking in short supply and an unavoidable anthem of bass-heavy club beats. By day, the 600 block of North Robertson Boulevard in [...]

By Tanya K. Merritte Designer: Nina Selby, Cotton Tale Designs, N. Selby Designs Background: Nina Selby founded her first crib bedding manufacturing company, Cotton Tale Designs, in 1990, but her [...]

The explosion in handbags shows no sign of slowing down. With the wealth of product in the market, designers are still managing to come up with innovative ways to combine [...]

We've all faced it: You want just one of something ... like a Krispy Kreme doughnut ... but the package contains a dozen. Not only are the other 11 going [...]

DALLAS -- When Ying Li-Oshrin calls retailers and asks if she can show them her hand-painted silks, the response is often, 'We're not interested in that.' The folksy image of [...]

Braxton, whose original fabrics can cost $1,000 a yard, has been adopted by an impressive number of fashion stars, including Emanuel Ungaro and Christian Lacroix. She plans to release her own line of accessories in fall 1994.

NEW YORK--Forget about the fancy packaging and elaborate fixturing. Take away the flashy advertising and sales pitches. What really convinces the ultimate consumer to part with hard-earned dollars? Design. While [...]

The plans of textile designer Amy Coe, to establish retail bedding store in Connecticut, are presented.

New York -- Textile designer Leslie Beck is broadening her licensing program to include a new children's initiative, Leslie Beck Children's Corner, which will feature apparel, layette, diaper bags and [...]

NEW YORK -- Michael Koch has formed Michael Koch Designs, a design studio first specializing in woven decorative fabrics, then printed fabrics. Koch, formerly executive vp, design for Wearbest SilTex [...]

Ingleman Designs (Hutchinson, MN) provides textile designs for numerous household furnishings manufacturers. Imperial Wallcoverings and WestPoint Stevens utilize Julie Ingleman's designs. There are 19 full-time employees at the firm.

The Ever-Innovative Designer Creates for the '90s. As soon as Carleton Varney entered the New York design world 35 years ago, he shot straight to the top at the unbelievably [...]

CHUNG SHING'S CREATIVE FORCE: CATHERINE LEE TAIPEI - When the jurors of Catherine Lee's award winning graduate project in textile design at the London Royal College of Art heard she [...]