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...I made a very conscious decision to use factories that are local to us,” explains Esh, who works closely with a factory in Forest Gate, east London, so that he can easily check the garments himself during...
...I use $70,000 because that is the cost of the most popular model sold in Hästens’ more than 250 partner stores....
...dolls’ heads salvaged from the Bébé de Paris factory, which closed in the early 20th century....
...Jim Thompson has also reduced its presence in foreign markets, closing stores in Singapore and Malaysia. A network of 40 stores in south-east Asia before the pandemic has shrunk to 22....
...“There’s something else that they appreciate, you know: the costume factor of it, that historicism, and just really beautiful tailoring.”...
...The store has been a fixture of New York’s East Village for 40 years, supplying the costumes and props for countless parades, fancy dress parties and horror films....
...Kawakubo admired the bag-lady look in the museum, which the Met’s costume curator Andrew Bolton relayed to the designers....
...The next step is opening a permanent store. “It could be in the US,” he muses. “It’s actually my biggest market now, because of Netflix.”...
...You can also take a look inside its factory. Maps by Liz Faunce Where do you enjoy cycling in Greater Tokyo?...
...Plus, when stores were closed, LVMH overcame its traditional wariness about ecommerce to turbocharge its online sales....
...Together with Pinduoduo, it has moved to a gleaming new tower called the Shanghai Arch, where employees wearing anime costumes and bright blue wigs to match the characters in their games, write code a few...
...I was also impressed by the more eco-friendly brand Futurum, which sources products as near as possible to its Netherlands factory....
...A gold watch chain hanging from a vest pocket can only be part of a costume, not an outfit....
...Now, Keighley has its share of high-street closures — Marks and Spencer went two years ago, and the Beales department store is in the final throes of its clearance sale....
...It was founded as a clothing factory in 1927, but was woken from dormancy last year....
...She is described by her biographer, Hayden Herrera, as “ripping through New York dime stores like a tornado”; she would find cheap costume jewellery and “she’d make it look fantastic”....
...I really like the costume jewellery that she wears and her collection of Simone Rocha and vintage pieces....
...As with her handbags, Hearst is selling the collection direct to consumer via her website, and direct in person from her new Manhattan store, which opens in the Carlyle Hotel later this year....
...DragonCon attracts more than 80,000 visitors over five days, staging panels on everything from sci-fi and horror to anime and video gaming....
...A 2015 immersive piece, World Factory , at the Young Vic, turned theatregoers into economists and made them battle to keep a factory afloat as the markets wobbled....
...The buttons he uses, made from vegetable ivory (a kind of nut), come from a factory in Northampton, which is the last place to produce them....
...I gloried in buying “ready-made” clothing at American discount stores, and later, when I could afford to, in department stores. I discovered online shopping. I browsed and ordered and returned....
...“It’s because I was going to the factory, all by myself, carting the stuff back from Long Island City.” Browne used to hand-write the labels sewn on to every single garment....
...The Stella McCartney brand now has 47 freestanding stores in locations including Manhattan, London, LA, Paris, Milan, Tokyo and Beijing and is distributed in more than 75 countries....
...It represents a different kind of vertical integration from the factories and shop floors of Zara et al....
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