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Before there was a fabric service, there were four brands and a family that spent 30 years designing, manufacturing, sewing, and selling clothing in Los Angeles. This is that story — and why it matters for whatever you're making.
Fabric District Direct™ wasn't founded by a company. It was built by a family — Daniel Hamudot, and his sons Yeron and Yaniv — who put in 30 years of experience between father, son, and brother in Los Angeles' garment trade.
Daniel taught his sons the trade the way it actually works: on the factory floor and in the district, by hand. What fiber a fabric really is. What a garment should cost to make. Which trend is about to move and which one is already finished. None of that comes from a course or a book — it comes from three decades of doing it, season after season.
That knowledge — the trade secrets, the trend sense, the relationships — is the real foundation under everything Fabric District Direct does today.
Over those years, the Hamudot family built and ran four fashion businesses. Different names, one education: every side of the trade, from the first sketch to the final sale.
The family's first business in the US — a manufacturer on Towne Ave in downtown Los Angeles that ran for over 15 years, selling to Susie's Deals at tens of thousands of units a month.
Daniel partnered with Amir Bardarian to create Rebound LA, off Los Angeles Street. It ran for several years, until Daniel's retirement.
After Daniel retired, Yeron kept the family's businesses going as wholesale companies — then co-created his own brand, Broken Leash, in Henderson, Nevada — in an outdoor mall there — with Steve Esfahani. They ran it together until about 2012, when Steve bought Yeron out.
Yeron came back to Los Angeles and opened Identity Fashion, his high-end boutique on Melrose — before he got sick with cancer.
Look at the four names in a row and you'll see they were never just brands. Eternity — forever: some things you build to last. Rebound — if you fall, you rebound; you get back up. Broken Leash — break free of whatever holds you. Identity — let your ideas and your beliefs out into the world, and be your own identity.
Forever. Get back up. Break free. Be yourself. Woven together, the names are this family's philosophy — and its legacy. Fabric District Direct carries all four forward.
The Fashion District runs on knowledge that never gets written down. Which jobbers hold the real designer overstock. How to judge a fabric by hand in three seconds. How a trend shows up in fabric orders months before it shows up in stores. When a price is fair, when it's a story, and when to walk away.
Father, son, and brother learned all of it the slow way — by manufacturing their own clothing, selling their own brands, and answering for their own mistakes. That is the credibility behind this business: not a certificate on the wall, but 30 years of the trade, in one family, still working.
Los Angeles is the capital of fabric in the US, and that's not an accident — it's geography. Asia is the main supplier of fabric and garments, and that supply enters the country through the LA harbor: the Port of Los Angeles, the busiest container port in the United States. The garment district sits closest to that source — the first stop after the port, where the containers land and the fabric changes hands.
Most fabric crosses the country through a chain of middlemen, picking up markup at every stop. Sourcing here, at the source, skips those stops. That's the literal meaning of the name: Fabric District Direct. It's also why a family that learned this trade in this district can find what it finds — we grew up at the front of the line.
Today, Yaniv is rekindling that family heritage of fashion and style in the Los Angeles garment district — and the four brands are consolidated into one door. Instead of only making our own clothing, the family now works broker-direct for anyone with a fashion need — one call, and three decades of manufacturing experience, district relationships, and fabric knowledge go to work on your project.
Garment production know-how from pattern to finished piece — the way the family manufactured for its own brands.
Help taking an idea to a sample that can actually be produced — fit, fabric, and cost worked out together, not guessed.
Sewing for samples and production, and honest guidance on getting a run sewn right the first time.
Deadstock and district fabric buying — by the yard from our rolls, or hunted to order through custom sourcing.
Help selling what you make and building it into a brand — pricing, positioning, and the trend sense that comes from 30 years in the trade.
Fabric District Direct carries a family name — Hamudot — and a name is something you protect by how you treat people. This business exists to grow in order to help people: the maker hunting the right bolt, the designer stretching a first production run, the quilter who knows exactly what she wants and cannot find it anywhere else.
And underneath the yardage math is the simplest goal we know: to make people feel good and happy. A fair price does that. So does an honest answer about a dye lot, a roll checked by hand before it ships, and fabric that turns into something someone loves to wear. That is the whole business plan — the rest is details.
Manufacturing, design, sewing, fabric, or building the brand itself — put the Hamudot family's 30 years to work on it. Call or text (310) 622-2830.