American Apparel could be profitable while making clothes in the U.S., Hammond said, "if they focus primarily on lower labor-cost items, or if they are focused on extremely trendy items and have incredibly low lead times".
PARIS, Oct. 8 — Many fashion houses find it profitable to offer parallel realities: clothes made for the runway and the red carpet, and a second, modified group called the commercial line.
Van Noten is unusual in running a profitable fashion company that sells mostly clothes.
But while the rest of the haute couture world seems to flounder, there is one anomaly: Chanel, which is still able to make a profitable business out of custom-made clothes.
'Hey I'm going to win a $20 million jackpot.'" But as profitable as Ms. Fleiss says her clothes-washing business has become, she still longs to open her provisionally named Stud Farm — if she can get a license.
His eventual goal, and Mr. Petukhov's, is to move from a supplier of basic cloth to a producer of more profitable dyed and refined fabrics, and eventually to make and export clothes.
It was further noted that such exchanges can also involve the acquisition of new clothes and other commodities that may facilitate increasingly profitable future sexual exchanges.
She wore flashy clothes, socialized with the city's wealthy and powerful, and developed a profitable sideline as the author of best-selling legal thrillers.
To boot, the seven-year-old company is modestly profitable and seeing growing demand for its service, which matches online customers with personal stylists who select clothes for them.
And while the recession and keeping her business profitable are her biggest concerns, she doesn't think women should feel embarrassed about loving to shop for clothes.
