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...GMO, which has $60bn in assets under management, has held shares for 13 years in Toyota Industries (TIC), the world’s largest manufacturer of forklift trucks and also a producer of cars, textiles and electronics...
...Over more than four decades on Berkshire’s board, his work alongside chief executive Warren Buffett helped transform a struggling textile maker into one of the world’s most valuable companies....
...This exhibition at the Hayward Gallery is the first major retrospective of this legendary French-American artist to focus exclusively on her work using fabrics and textiles....
...In partnership with WWF, Stella McCartney and The Textile Exchange, the search giant has developed the Global Impact Fibre Explorer, that it says will enable companies to identify the biggest risks associated...
...Duro Olowu is a fashion designer and curator....
...But fashion brands are indirectly influenced by them because the textile mills do....
...I collect rare African textiles, so another stop is a tiny shop called Adire Textiles in Alfies Antique Market, which has an incredible collection of late-19th-century to late-20th-century west African pieces...
...After a Sunday Times investigation exposed longstanding concerns about textile workers in Leicester, authorities say they have found no evidence of modern slavery offences in the first round of inspections...
...It’s filled with all these Japanese textiles, but some look almost like a combination of shibori and batik, which I thought was an interesting dichotomy. kimono-sarasa.com/ootani The podcast I’m listening...
...The kimono allows women to feel powerful for all the right reasons and feminine for all the right reasons,” says the Nigerian-born designer Duro Olowu, who frequently references the traditional Japanese...
...Suspended in the opening gallery, this gorgeous, 3.5-metre long textile by Nigerian-born, London-based Duro Olowu was inspired by the Hellenistic mosaics of Delos, some of which survive....
...A crowd of suits and red ties slowly makes its way through a welcome arch made from red balloons, towards a temporary stage bearing a huge red banner that reads: “Grand Opening Risever Machinery, LLC.”...
...Corporate earnings reports out today include Pacific Textiles and Sa Sa International....
...Her other watchword is sustainability: 99 per cent of her textiles are sustainable. “Even if a viscose is biodegradable, it still has to be certified before we will use it,” she says....
...textiles My inspirations are all international....
...As the Nigerian fashion designer Duro Olowu says, wherever you are, “selecting and wearing clothes in real life is the most powerful and emotionally truthful expression of personal identity”....
...With a strong focus on non-resources sectors such as food and textiles, the company has weathered the global commodities rout better than bigger rivals such as Mitsubishi Corp and Mitsui & Co that reported...
...A former textile mill nestled in a valley in Scotland’s Borders region is not the obvious place to find a dynamic energy supplier....
...Mr Icahn runs a family-only hedge fund but also has an $11.4bn listed vehicle called Icahn Enterprises, whose businesses span railcars, metal recycling and textiles....
...He cites the wide range of disciplines – from automotive design to textiles and graphics – housed in the city....
...Mr Hilfiger realised that this time round he was not interested in managing the business, so in 1989 he sold it to Canadian entrepreneur Lawrence Stroll and Silas Chou, the Hong Kong-based fashion and textile...
...Rebecca Arnold, lecturer in history of dress and textiles at the Courtauld Institute of Art, says: “Making an entrance on the red carpet has become the most important thing....
...This gives these designers a wealth of textiles, prints, and influences to draw from.”...
...Interest has been expressed by LVMH, the Malaysian government’s investment fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad, Qatar Holding LLC and China’s HNA Group, but no deal has yet been sealed....
...Then with similar rationale, he switched to textiles, and finally to coal, with the purchase of Horizon Natural Resources in 2004 – with similar results....
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