California Market Center History
Earlier company descriptions, brand line-ups, store counts and photographs from the history of California Market Center, kept for historical reference.
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The Company Description of Its Time
The California Market Center is the newest marketplace for fashion, gift and home - the historical profile's opening claim, kept first because the blend is the building's identity. Located at the corner of Olympic and Main in downtown Los Angeles, the CMC is helping retailers redefine modern merchandising. Nowhere else can wholesale buyers find such a fresh array of goods: women's wear, men's wear, children's wear, toys, gifts, decorative accessories, furniture and decor, home textiles, garden accessories, stationery, footwear, fashion accessories and personal care products, under one roof.
Markets Through the Year
The CMC is open daily, and hosts five major fashion markets, two textile markets and four gift and home markets each year, in addition to a range of market days, fashion weeks, educational events and seminars throughout the year. Within each of these major markets is a variety of category-specific specialty markets, such as the LA Shoe Show during fashion markets, Technology-by-Design during the L.A. Textile Show and the Garden District during gift markets. Fashion markets in the Spring and the Fall are timed with Fashion Week runway shows, and buyers are pointed to the LA fashion week site for the runway schedule - a route in the References below.
The visitor picture completes the filing: the CMC is visited by thousands of retailers, designers, manufacturers, press, stylemakers and influencers from around the globe, and its calendar mixes trade-only markets, tradeshows, seminars and events with exclusive events and sample sales open to the public. One dated exhibit - the list of 2010 California Market Center events - is linked from this page rather than reproduced, since a 2010 calendar is a historical sample of the building's rhythm, not a current schedule.
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