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...Founded as the Tsuzawa Knit Fabric Factory in 1950, Goldwin’s earliest success was in creating thick socks for the skiwear industry....
...Accessories, including socks, bags, jewellery, footwear and belts, range from €7.99 to €199....
...Until now, Willy Wonka has always been a middle-aged magnate, as per Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and two film adaptations. King gives us Young Wonka: the origin story....
...A former air-balloon factory on the outskirts of Paris, Hangar Y, is an art centre with a 25-acre sculpture park....
...Many Scottish factories didn’t survive the offshoring exodus, but those that remain are specialists in their fields: his cotton socks, made in the Highlands, “rival the best Japanese ones in terms of quality...
...Shein is a Chinese-founded fast fashion company that shipped cheap clothes directly from Chinese factories to shoppers in the west....
...“Computer keyboards make a mousy tappy tap tappy tap like ones you hear in a Starbucks — work may be getting done but it sounds cozy and small, like knitting needles creating a pair of socks....
...Comme Si’s cashmere, silk, merino wool and cotton styles are made on traditional knitting machines in Italian factories where, until Lee showed up, they were only making old-fashioned dress socks for men...
...The memory of visiting Warhol’s Factory in 1977 seems to lift his whole demeanour. “I was at the Factory,” he begins, now puffing on a Cuban. “I was painted by Jamie Wyeth....
...Everything is made in Italy, many pieces at the tiny Neapolitan factory that originally produced them in the 1960s for his grandfather....
...The design is inspired by a Japanese walking sock of the same name, and makes quite the fashion statement....
...yellow-sock-clad ankles, to emphasise the dance steps), Stern is sprightly, warm and witty, with only an occasional hint of New York crankiness....
...Sprinting around the streets of Paris dressed in a moth-eaten T-shirt, a paisley bandana and tie-dye socks, the former drummer with neck-length hair appears ready for a night in a mosh pit....
...Seconds later, Proulx emerges from the big house, dressed in a black-and-aubergine sweatsuit, with black socks underneath brown hiking sandals....
...I also turn the thermostat down to 19 degrees and always use earplugs — the no-nonsense, cylindrical yellow ones that factory workers use, and which I buy by the boxful....
...“I’ve been to the factories where these shoes are made and I’ve seen the actual shoe coming out of the machine,” says Bailey....
...The collection was unveiled at Colour Factory in London’s Hackney Wick in a show of support for a local music venue....
...“I was bringing in all the money, and yet I kept asking myself why I was born as a woman, why I have to wash his socks. Who made the law saying that women should do the laundry?”...
...“Sustainable design has to take into account the origins of the materials, who sewed a garment, does a dye factory pollute local air or water and so on,” says founder Natalie Patricia....
...And there, standing in her kitchen in my wet socks, as night began pressing in at the windows, I heard it....
...Kreiz has cut $1bn from the annual cost base he inherited, reducing the number of items Mattel makes by one-third, exiting factories from China to Canada and slashing capital expenditures from $300m to $120m...
...The sense of community was palpable too at AZ Factory’s memorial show for the late Alber Elbaz, where 47 designers created looks for an audience that included his partner, Alex Koo, and the first lady of...
...Last August, he broke ground on a $400mn factory in Ohio designed to augment the company’s imports from Taiwan....
...“You look like you’re going to an S&M party in a cheese factory.” That’s my husband’s verdict as I try out a pair of black studded Hermès clogs....
...The accessories counter (socks, belts, watch bands, cufflinks) would be fun and change a lot....
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