Fashion District, Los Angeles, California
The Fashion District is a design, warehouse, and distribution nexus of the clothing, accessories and fabric industry in Downtown Los Angeles. The Fashion District spans 90 blocks and is the hub of the apparel industry on the West Coast of the United States.
The Fashion District is known to be one of the best places to shop for clothing, accessories, cosmetics and shoes for low prices.
The Fashion District also features Santee Alley, a heavily populated "back alley" shopping path between Maple and Santee Streets, stretching from Olympic Boulevard to Pico Boulevard. This alley is notorious for being home to a large concentration of counterfeiters trying to sell a variety of faux designer goods, ripped DVDs, and other stolen or bootleg items. Similarly, the alley is also known for its illgeal trade in live animals, which has been criticized by animal rights activists as cruel. Despite this, there are also many reputable and honest merchants in the alley.
California Market Center is centrally located in the Fashion District, and similar to the Cooper Building and the New Mart. It
is home to the offices of many of Los Angeles' aspiring clothing designers, sellers, and buyers, as well as the
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