NEW YORK — As the premium jeans business has taken off in recent years, with tremendous amounts of attention focused on high-end brands retailing for $100, $200 and more, industry executives have pointed out that, while this upscale business was…

NEW YORK — The chorus of voices complaining about China’s trade practices has grown in recent months to include a diverse range of labor activists,…

NEW YORK — During the five years Afghanistan was ruled by the Taliban, the country was stripped economically, losing what little industry it had and becoming heavily dependent on the illegal opium trade.

After that government was toppled…

NEW YORK — The board of the Fashion Center Business Improvement District has approved a 9 percent increase in the levy imposed on district landlords to pay for the FCBID’s services.

At the group’s annual meeting Wednesday…

Retail prices for women’s apparel jumped 1.8 percent in the month and 0.4 percent for the year, according to the March Consumer Price Index.

Negotiations between importers and ocean carriers on next year’s shipping contracts are at a critical point with little time left.

NEW YORK — After emerging from bankruptcy, Malden Mills Industries is moving forward with a new management team and major global expansion.

While it doesn’t intend to forget its roots, the Lawrence, Mass.-based company is preparing…

NEW YORK — China’s market share in the categories of goods for which the U.S. may impose safeguard quotas continued to surge during the past two weeks, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Commerce Department.

China is…

Levi Strauss posted a $47.3 million profit on 4.5 percent revenue growth in its first quarter, but retail consolidation tempered any robust predictions.

NEW YORK — Bobbi Silten, president of Levi Strauss & Co.’s U.S. Dockers division, will be stepping down from her post in June to take a six-month sabbatical, the San Francisco-based company said in a statement this…

For decades, the rise and fall of hemlines has been the cause of chatter among designers, sociologists and even Wall Street investors, who turned to them as an indicator of where the market was headed. The conversations tended to focus on skirts and…

In a crackdown on tax fraud in the garment industry, IRS agents arrested the owner of Y.K.Y. Inc. and charged him with evading corporate taxes.

NEW YORK — The premium jeans market has apparently become so alluring that even companies aiming for a lower tier are landing there.

That’s the case for Marlow jeans, a new line scheduled to reach stores for summer delivery. The…

Earnest Sewn is set to open its first store, in New York’s Meatpacking District, with a rugged ambiance evoking its aesthetic.

NEW YORK — City Council Speaker Gifford Miller, a Democratic candidate for New York mayor, said he would consider more zoning and tax incentives to retain garment-manufacturing jobs if he is elected.

Miller, who on Thursday night helped…