Get Movin’: Our Fave Activewear Picks & Hiking Trails
As we swing into summer and get into rhythm of a new normal, we’re spotlighting activewear and accessories to make you feel a bit more stylish during your walk, hike, or other outdoor activities. Peruse our recommendations, get shopping, and go outside!
Be sure to scroll all the way down for our fave hiking trails!
Curated by Taryn, CMC Events Coordinator and Marisa, CMC Events Manager
CMC SHOWROOM BRANDS
CMC is home to some of the industry’s most popular activewear brands, providing buyers with a scope of great options for LA Market.
Below is just a taste of the activewear brands you’ll find our Showrooms.
PUMA
Suite: C325
PUMA is currently spearheading an exciting campaign in collaboration with Cara Delevingne for PRIDE month, and PUMA is also listed as the third-largest sportswear manufacturer in the world.
Native Shoes
Suite: C537
By 2023, each and every pair of Native Shoes will be 100% life cycle managed. The Remix Project, their first initiative on this journey which recycles your well-loved Native Shoes by giving them new life in projects across the community.
Evolutionary Apparel
Suite: C721
Evolutionary Apparel was the brainchild of Jimmy Zhang in 2009, featuring the Inspired Hearts brand based in Los Angeles. The Inspired Hearts brand is a junior lifestyle clothing line of athleisure wear, novelty dorm wear, elevated loungewear, fashion performance wear, and cozy sleepwear.
FILA
Suite: C304
CMC showroom Money Ruins Everything sports both FILA for men and women, but also their kid’s line. This is a must-shop showroom during LA Kids Market, Label Array and LA Market Week for your activewear and sport needs.
26 International
Suite: C710
26 has developed a reputation for quality, price fairness, and integrity among our customers and competitors. From the beginning idea in the development stage with the Design Department to the final delivery with the Shipping Department, 26 International prides itself in complete and total emersion with its customers.
LABEL ARRAY BRANDS
These Label Array exhibitor favorites offer activewear collections that are functional, eco-conscious, and stylish. Label Array is LA Market’s exhibitor showcase highlighting a curates selection of Women’s, Contemporary & Young Contemporary brands.
Jiva Active
JIVA is an activewear, swimwear, and loungewear brand that inspires living a mindful life. Anti-microbial, Quick-Dry, Sun Protection, and a Body Contour Fit.
Nikibiki
Nikibiki proudly presents an eclectic collection of quality basics for everyday wear. They offer size-inclusive options and they are also carried by LA Showroom at the CMC. (Suite: C600)
LA Society
LA Society is inspired by the lifestyles women lead today. Their activewear is made from high-quality fabrics and their clothing is built to sustain and provide comfort no matter where your day might take you.
Mono B
Mono B’s design and production team combine technology and trend to produce our ready-to-wear apparel. Every style is both functional and fashionable. Every fabric goes through rigorous testing including for comfort, durability, and dye transfer.
Avocado
All Avocado seamless products are designed, knitted, sewn, and hand-dyed entirely in Downtown Los Angeles. Through comfort, fit, self-expression, and an eco-conscious state of mind, they strive to allow you to be confident in the skin you are in and stay true to yourself.
LA KIDS MARKET BRANDS
From swimwear to activewear and sporty choices for your kiddos, you can find fun options and colorful prints to ramp up their summertime style.
Explore hundreds of the industry’s best brands from around the world on our LA Kids Market showroom floor.
Jill Yoga
Suite: C568
Jill Yoga's mission is to promote confidence and healthy active living- Be Active, Be Bold, Be You. They want young girls, no matter what their own unique shape, to feel comfortable and confident in themselves with Jill Yoga.
Spiritual Gangster
Suite: C570
Inspired by yogis, athletes, artists, and musicians worldwide, they create collections to encourage the high vibration practices of living in gratitude, giving back, and choosing kindness. For every item they sell through Spiritualgangster.com, they donate proceeds to provide a meal to a person in need through our partnership with Feeding America.
Happy Socks
Suite: C580
Happy Socks is a high-quality sock that combines unique designs and craftsmanship. Today, Happy Socks has reached 90 countries and every continent. With Concept Stores all around the world, from LA to Tokyo, Happy Socks can be found in over 10,000 top fashion apparel boutiques.
Wander & Wonder
Suite: C544
Established in 2017, Wander & Wonder was an inception from a love of travel as a family. Traveling with her children often, designer and founder Hilda Yim realized that curious minds love adventure and learning about other cultures through food, music, art, and street life.
NUNUNU World
Suite: C585
NUNUNU creates an alternative fashion line to typical children’s clothing. They goes against fashion’s narrow set of beliefs and breaks free from over-stimulating kid clichés. By introducing children to the wonderful mystery of minimalism, NUNUNU lets kids shine at every stage with a kickass cocktail of attitude and a big sense of humor.
SIZE INCLUSIVE
These brands celebrate your body at any age or size by creating colorful, stylish, and comfortable activewear options to make you excited about getting moving!
Girlfriend Collective
Girlfriend Collective turns old plastic bottles, fishing nets, and other waste into bras, leggings, and shorts you’ll never want to throw away. All of their textiles are made from recycled materials in their facility in Taiwan that specializes in eco-friendly and high-quality textiles.
Universal Standard
Universal Standard celebrates all ages and sizes with their Fit Liberty program that wants to find the right fit for the person in the mirror, not the number on the label. They host annual Denim Drives with a Blue Jeans Go Green recycling program, and they continue ongoing work with organizations like Dress for Success and First Step via Fit Liberty that supports women returning to the workforce.
Superfit Hero
At Superfit Hero their message is to ditch diet culture and join the Body Positive Fitness Revolution. They create activewear designed for your body and for your movement.
Year of Ours
Year of Ours is a female-led, LA-based brand with an inclusive, “team spirit” ethos at its core. Their clothes pay homage to the bold, utilitarian aesthetic of classic American sportswear but with a major fit, style, and fabric updates that reflect the contemporary women who wear their clothes.
Knix
Knix designs intimates are for every life stage with one goal in mind: to make you feel more comfortable in your own skin. Knix is the world leader in wire-free bras and functional underwear. They've pioneered the use of patented bonding technology to create seamless, chafe-free designs, as well as fabrics with support structures built right into them.
INDIE BRANDS
These indie brands celebrate positive environmental impacts, women-owned businesses, and positive body image campaigns to make you feel proud of what brand you’re sporting.
Outdoor Voices
Outdoor Voices design their products through the lens of longevity and circularity to reduce their environmental impact. They have prioritized solutions for raw materials — specifically, fabrics and packaging — as they account for nearly 70% of our environmental impact.
LNDR
LNDR creates well made, genuinely premium activewear that you can wear everywhere, all day, feel ultra-comfortable and look effortless. LNDR products are made with cutting-edge technology and a fanatical attitude towards quality and fit. It can take factories up to 20 times longer to knit LNDR seamless leggings, for instance, compared to other brands.
Michi
MICHI believes in fueling female confidence, which is why they design collections that enhance performance and ignite self-expression. Their ethically made styles are created with eco-friendly, sustainable Bluesign® and Oeko-Tex® certified textiles and are constructed to last.
Carbon38
Carbon38 prides itself on being a brand that women can use to feel her most powerful, stylish, and feminine. At the core of their philosophy lies the DNA of activewear: fit, fabric, and function.
P.E Nation
The P.E Nation philosophy is centered around quality design and construction, whilst offering fashion-forward, comfortable and fashionable pieces, specifically designed to take you from the studio to street. The brand reflects a sense of strength in unity and community, encouraging women to find their passion and flair and celebrate an active way of life.
SPORTY ACCESSORIZING
Accessorize your activewear with stylish waist packs, colorful weight sets, and fun outdoor hiking sandals!
CARAA
Caraa is a sports bag and accessory company founded in 2015 by CFDA award-winning designer Carmen Chen Wu and Aaron Luo to reimagine handbags for modern life. With backgrounds in design and global supply chain, Carmen and Aaron merged their respective expertise in form and function to create Car + aa.
TEVA
Every inch of their footwear is conceived as a canvas. As enduring as they are timeless, their signature straps are continually reimagined in a variety of patterns, dreamt up by their designers from around the globe. Starting in 2020, all straps across their entire product line are made from traceable, verifiable recycled plastic.
Yeti Yoga
Yeti Yoga has become well established since launching in 2013, with a product line that is constantly evolving. They are known for colorful printed yoga mats and notorious for collaborative styles with brands like Pendelton.
Bala
Bala is a Los Angeles based movement company, founded in 2018 by husband-and-wife team Natalie Holloway and Maximilian Kislevitz. Their first collection, Bala Bangles, are stylish weighted bands that amplify the fitness benefits of just about any routine.
HEX
Hex draws on decades of experience in fashion, music, and art and channels it to equip the next generation of creators. They empower everyone to explore the outer limits of their potential through thoughtfully designed products. You can find HEX at the CMC in Suite C304.
OUR FAVE HIKING TRAILS
My boyfriend and I are avid hikers and love the opportunity great weather brings for a Saturdate or Sunday Funday exploring the natural wonders of our beautiful California landscapes.
Click below for more info on our favorite hiking trails.
-Taryn, CMC Events Coordinator
