Well, This is a Downer

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Trendy SoCal mall chain My Fashion Club is being shut down after its founder, Germena entrepreneur Rainer Schulz, died tragically in a plane crash this March. California Apparel News reports that "store managers at the various mall-centric outlets...said they were informed they are shuttering their doors because of Schulz’s death." The chain had locations in Canoga Park, Glendale, Northridge and Bakersfield. [CAN]