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Garment District (other)
Garment District may refer to: *Garment District (Los Angeles) * Garment District, Manhattan *Garment District, Montreal *Garment District (Kansas City, Missouri) *Garment District (clothing retailer), Cambridge, Massachusetts * Garment District, Philadelphia * Garment District, Toronto See also * Fashion District (other) * Fashion in Milan * Savile Row in London {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garment District (Los Angeles)
The Los Angeles Fashion District, previously known as the Garment District, is a business improvement district (BID) in, and often cited as a sub-neighborhood of, Downtown Los Angeles. The neighborhood caters to wholesale selling and has more than 4,000 overwhelmingly independently owned and operated retail and wholesale businesses selling apparel, footwear, accessories, and fabrics. Status and boundaries The Fashion District has no official, government-recognized status. It is recognized as a subdistrict of Downtown by the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council (DLANC), which states its boundaries as: *to the west, Main Street *to the south, Washington Blvd. (west of Alameda Street) and 26th St. (east of Alameda St.) *to the east, the Los Angeles River (DLANC definition) or by the Fashion District's definition, Paloma Street, three blocks east of San Pedro Street. *to the north, generally 7th St. and Skid Row and the Arts District In earlier documents, the DLANC define ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garment District, Manhattan
The Garment District, also known as the Garment Center, the Fashion District, or the Fashion Center, is a neighborhood located in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The dense concentration of fashion-related uses give the neighborhood its name. The neighborhood, less than , is generally considered to lie between Fifth Avenue and Ninth Avenue, from 34th to 42nd Streets. The neighborhood is home to many of New York City's showrooms and to numerous major fashion labels, and caters to all aspects of the fashion process from design and production to wholesale selling. The Garment District has been known since the early 20th century as the center for fashion manufacturing and fashion design in the United States, and even the world. Geography By the late 1930s, the Garment District was broadly surrounded by Sixth Avenue to the east, 25th Street to the south, Ninth Avenue to the west, and 42nd Street to the north. The southern portion, between 25th and 30th Streets, comprise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garment District, Montreal
The Garment District (french: Cité de la Mode) is a neighbourhood in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located primarily along Chabanel Street in the Ahuntsic neighbourhood of the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough. The Chabanel Station (train) is located close by. History Montreal's Garment District was originally located downtown on De Maisonneuve Boulevard between Berri Street and Saint Laurent Boulevard. Furriers such as the Hudson's Bay Company and warehouses lined the streets in this area at the time. The Garment District later moved to the Mile End neighbourhood in the northernmost edge of the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal. The massive 1960s buildings built by the fur traders along De Gaspé Street still stand today. It has since moved again to its current location, along Chabanel Street. From 1964 to 1985 and running from Saint-Laurent Boulevard in the east to Meilleur Avenue in the west, eight large multi-storey buildings were built along Chabanel. The fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garment District (Kansas City, Missouri)
The Kansas City Garment District is located in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri to the east of Quality Hill, across Broadway Boulevard. In the 1930s several large clothing manufacturers clustered here, making Kansas City's garment district second only to New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...'s in size. Today, this heritage is commemorated by an oversize needle and thread monument. Its old industrial buildings have since been redeveloped into loft apartments, office, and restaurants. Henry Perry, father of Kansas City-style barbecue got his start in 1908 from a stand in an alley in the neighborhood. References Neighborhoods in Kansas City, Missouri Garment districts Restaurant districts and streets in the United States Downtown Kansas City {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garment District (clothing Retailer)
The Garment District is a clothing retailer in Cambridge, Massachusetts that opened in 1986 and houses an eclectic array of vintage and contemporary clothing. The Garment District is also known for its Dollar-A-Pound clothing store. History Founded in the 1940s, the company produced "wiping clothes" (i.e. rags) to smokestack industries, such as sugar manufacturing. The Garment District began as an offshoot of Harbor Textiles. In 1979 as demand began to rise for used clothing Dollar-A-Pound was opened, where one could buy clothing by the pound. Instead of cutting used clothing up for wiping cloths it was now sold as fashion, though without racks or price tags. In the 1980s finding large quantities of vintage 1940s and 50s clothing at Dollar-A-Pound was commonplace. In 1986 as the demand for used and vintage clothing continued to rise The Garment District was born. Now in addition to Dollar-A-Pound both new & used clothing is sold on racks - traditional style. Hundreds of tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garment District, Philadelphia
Fabric Row (''Der Ferder'', "the fourth", in Yiddish) is a historic Jewish textile and garment district located on South 4th Street in the Queen Village neighborhood of Philadelphia between Bainbridge Street and Catherine Street. History Fabric Row had its beginnings when the area was still part of the District of Southwark. Starting in the late 19th century when peddlers were able to purchase licenses for $25. Those who could not afford the $25 fee would rent a cart for $0.25 per day. This business practice allowed some to profit until the 1950s when pushcarts were banned. The area later became a known fabric market where there existed up to 30 fabric retailers between the 1930s until the 1950s at its peak. In 1996, fabric shop owners on South Fourth Street successfully lobbied the city for official recognition of the "Fabric Row" name. Preservation efforts In 2015, the area went through major renovations with many services offered by the organization that manages the Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garment District, Toronto
The Fashion District (also known as the Garment District) is a commercial and residential district in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located between the intersection of Bathurst Street to the west, Spadina Avenue to the east, Queen Street West to the north and Front Street to the south. Google Maps extends the district further east of Spadina Avenue to Peter Street. History The district's name is derived from the area's role in the garment industry. In the early 20th century, numerous textile and fabric factories and warehouses were located here due to the proximity and easy access to shipping and rail lines. Garment enterprise owners commissioned the construction of multi-storey buildings to house their manufacturing operations. Once 80% of the city's Jewish community lived in the immediate area resulting in the establishment of numerous Jewish delis, tailors, bookstores, cinemas, Yiddish theatres and synagogues. Many from this community worked in the garment indu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fashion District (other)
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Fashion District may refer to: * Fashion District (Los Angeles) * Fashion District, Toronto * Fashion District, New York City * Fashion District Philadelphia See also * Wynwood Fashion District, sub-district of Wynwood in Miami * Quadrilatero della moda, Milan * Garment District (other) Garment District may refer to: *Garment District (Los Angeles) * Garment District, Manhattan *Garment District, Montreal *Garment District (Kansas City, Missouri) *Garment District (clothing retailer), Cambridge, Massachusetts * Garment District, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fashion In Milan
The Italian city of Milan is recognised internationally as one of the world's most important fashion capitals, along with Paris, New York and London. Milan has established some history within the fields of clothing and luxury, textiles and design in general. Throughout the late 19th century, Milan, as the capital of Lombardy, was a major production centre, benefitting from its status as one of the country's salient economic and industrial city. ''Milanese'' fashion, despite taking inspiration from the leading Parisian ''couture'' of the time, developed its own approach, which was by nature devoted to sobriety, simplicity and the quality of the fabric. Throughout the 19th and 20th century, the city expanded its role as a fashion centre, with a number of rising designers contributing to Milan's image as Italy's fashion capital, stemming from Italy's ruins "that English gentlemen flok to admire ("''Gran Tour'' of Italy", french for ''big trip'')" and to enjoy its opera. Milan emerg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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