Only the Essential: A Journal of Minimalism

CMC launches Shape

With the athleisure clothing category hitting its stride, a new show highlighting that segment was launched by the California Market Center to coincide with Los Angeles Fashion Market.

The new Shape show invaded the CMC’s 13th-floor penthouse with some 30 exhibitors.

The best in hair and makeup trends for Spring 2015 brought to you by Cosmo UK!  This is a slide show on the best of the styles. 

Manufacturing in the U.S. is starting to make a comeback, and is poised for even bigger gains in the years ahead.

That, at least, is the way the optimists see it.

A small but growing number of clothing designers and retailers are bringing some production back to the U.S. The firms cite rising labor costs, poor quality and long lead times in China.

The Long Sleeve Zipper T is back in stock!  The perfect classic sweatshirt with a back zipper to add a nice element of detail. 

One of the biggest challenges facing the American economy is that we lack a domestic manufacturing base. Simply put we do not produce anything anymore. We buy tons of foreign goods and then wonder why we are lacking jobs.