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...Or as Alan Bennett once wrote: “Joking but not joking. Caring but not caring. Serious but not serious.”...
...Congress also, in effect, prevented the US complying with WTO rulings on issues like cotton subsidies for years on end....
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...In a navy cotton dress by Jean Muir, and wearing no make-up, she radiates a chic froideur. “You made it, you must be exhausted,” she exclaims, as though I’ve undertaken a tremendous voyage....
...In 1969 Alan Bean, a crew member of Apollo 12, took a fragment of MacBean tartan with him on that historic mission, and was reputed to have left the piece of fabric on the surface of the moon....
...Clothing brands want to know not just where their garments were stitched but where the cotton was grown. (Good luck with that one.)...
...(There are a lot of stages in the supply chain between cotton picked by Uyghurs in Xinjiang and shirts turning up in EU clothing stores.) It’s the import ban the companies don’t like....
...Alan Crocetti acetate sunglasses, €415. Colombe d’Humières silver and glass pearl #207 single earring, €600 Hermès cotton poplin dress, £2,600....
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...Jaunty pomegranate-patterned runners lead up and down stairs; eight charming fourth-floor dormer bedrooms are wrapped in papers by Pierre Frey based on 18th-century Indian printed cottons....
...Xinjiang is reckoned to produce 85 per cent of China’s cotton and 20 per cent of world supply....
...In his memoirs, Nicholas wrote that his time in these places was “no cotton candy with swirling teacup rides and exhilarating jaunts down Splash Mountain”, idyllic references to Disney attractions....
...Bateman’s gym wardrobe — “a pair of crow-black cotton and Lycra shorts with a white waistband and side-stripes and a cotton and Lycra tank top, both by Wilkes” — is lifted entirely from the May 1988 issue...
...Set in a cleft between mist-shrouded hills, the town is dominated by cotton mills whose looms have long since fallen silent....
...The EU might also be feeling shamed into action since the US is ahead of Brussels here, having last month put a total ban on cotton and tomato products from Xinjiang, with tough moves also afoot in Canada...
...Not since Alan Clark dissed fellow Tory MP Michael Heseltine as the sort of chap “who had to buy his own furniture” has a quote about home design caused such a stir....
...Read more Australia’s cotton industry is being pulled into a simmering diplomatic row with China, with Beijing urging its mills to stop using suppliers from Down Under, according to Australian industry...
...China is pressuring global businesses for boycotting cotton produced in Xinjiang because of rights concerns, including H&M and Nike....
...Come the Civil War across the Atlantic, the great majority of the British political elite, including Liberal Party leaders like Gladstone, whose family fortune was in cotton, cheered on the Confederacy....
...But as factories close and cotton stockpiles, can fast fashion’s $2.5tn supply chain be stitched back together?...
...European empires established trading routes with the Americas, Africa, and Asia, but trade was generally limited to specialist goods like spices and cotton textiles....
...Send any thoughts to trade.secrets@ft.com, or email me at alan.beattie@ft.com....
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