Hints and tips:
...In her pre-fame days Winehouse worked in the market, first at a stall selling candles and then, less aromatically, in a fetish clothes store....
...I was only seconds in the ice-cold water before I felt my brain slowing....
...She produces about 700 pairs per season, which are sold wholesale through high-end boutiques and ecommerce stores such as Browns, Farfetch, Ssense and LN-CC....
...Is it freezing due to aggressive air con or more like a hothouse?...
...As we spoke over video in mid-August, factories in south-west China were closed because a heatwave had led to a shortage of electricity for air conditioning and fans....
...I was also impressed by the more eco-friendly brand Futurum, which sources products as near as possible to its Netherlands factory....
...A saleswoman in the Levi’s shop says customers were trickling back — but usually just to return clothes. “They need the cash more than the new clothes,” she says....
...The online clothes shop also gives a surprisingly positive fiscal half-year trading update thanks to cost culling and, presumably, on demand for slippers and lounge suits....
...“I’m not saying that you shouldn’t buy clothes,” she adds, “but I do believe that less is more.”...
...Just the thing for the next Comic-Con conference, right?...
...There was time for a whizz around the Old Town, populated by vintage clothes and junk shops, as well as a plethora of ice-cream parlours....
...I always buy my clothes in Italy because they believe that everyone, whatever their size, should look beautiful....
...There is a flexibility about artists working as designers, evident still in the old Arabia [ceramics] factory in Helsinki, where artists’ studios occupy the top floor.”...
...I worked in a valve factory, for Sainsbury’s in Victoria and in Germany as a student. I also worked in the Sarsons Vinegar factory in Vauxhall — six weeks of carting vinegar around in barrels....
...The catalyst for the scene today was arguably Acne Studios, which began in Stockholm as a creative ideas factory rather than a fashion brand....
...Towards the end of the financial year, Primark opened a US store in the refurbished Filene’s department store building, a Boston landmark....
...McColl’s Retail Group, which sees its future in convenience stores, is to sell 100 of its newsagents....
...People’s Pops The ultimate ice-cream treat, these can be found in stores across the city and on the High Line park....
...The newest stores on Fernando VI show that Salesas is learning from Anglo-Saxon retail models....
...In 1934, Henri bought a defunct factory in Paris and set up his own car manufacturing company....
...Cambodia’s garment factories employ 400,000 workers who churn out clothes for the likes of Gap, Walmart and Marks and Spencer. Garments make up about 70 per cent of official exports....
...Although Uniqlo clothes were not being made in the collapsed Rana Plaza building, Fast Retailing has subsequently responded anyway by joining a European-led initiative to improve factory conditions....
...Gary Card is making the most of the bright light at his flat-cum-studio in a converted factory in Dalston, east London. A friend is sunbathing on his balcony....
...gadgets and manga-comic-book stores in central Tokyo....
...Out beyond central Moscow there’s also Flacon, a disused perfume factory converted into a hive of clothes shops and creative studios with a buzz similar to London’s Camden Market or Tokyo’s Shibuya district...
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