Single Spotlight: The California Fashion Manufacturing Association

Hello all,

I have some exciting news to share with all of you! As you know, Single is proud to be Made in USA.... and I am overjoyed that Single is a part of the California Fashion Manufacturing Association!

Single Dress manufactures 90% of our product proudly in Downtown LA. We support our local California contractors and their families, as well as the local economy. Now if only retailers across our country cared as much about sustaining our US economy and bought less goods made in China... we would all benefit tremendously!

Take a look below at the Association's Mission Statement, and then read Single's profile on their website :-)

For more information on the California Fashion Manufacturing Association, click here!!!

I absolutely love this!

Xo, G

SINGLE was Co-founded by Galina Sobolev and Michael Sobolev in 1994, and was conceived to reaffirm every woman's zest for life, romance and luxury.

Confident – Sexy – Feminine - and manufactured in Los Angeles under Galina’s watchful eye!
As a child in her native Russia, Galina learned how to sew and crochet from her grandmother in a glitzy neighborhood in Odessa. Even today, Galina cites this as a profound influence in her life, recalling the supple garments and colorful fabrics she used to play with.

In 1977 her family moved to New York. A few years later Galina enrolled at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She participated in the school's exchange program which enabled her to spend a year and a half in England to study knitwear. Upon her return to the U.S., she earned two awards from FIT for her graduating collection. During this time, she also got into modeling, walking the New York runways alongside Pat Cleveland and Iman for such designers as Michael Kors and Michael Vollbracht.
Galina moved to Los Angeles in 1987 where she continued to work in fashion, designing for several well known fashion lines. But it was her meeting with her future husband Michael Sobolev, in what she describes as a fairytale-like situation on Christmas Eve of 1992 that truly changed her life. The couple proved to be such a great match that they extended their personal relationship to include a professional one.

Michael's entrepreneurial skills and MBA degree together with Galina's talent made a perfect formula for starting a company of their own, with Michael taking the business end while Galina focused on the creative aspect of designing gorgeous dresses. Two years into the venture, major stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Fred Segal picked up the line with an overwhelming reaction to her designs.
SINGLE offers the very latest in fashion trends with a fresh and unique interpretation, combining classic luxury with an exuberant attitude with one-of-a-kind prints developed from original artwork.
As Galina states, “When you wear SINGLE, you possess an optimistic outlook and a strong sense of self.”