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...when they come to seek his help. I now find myself in the unusual position of agreeing with Straw's every word. Feminists have denounced Straw's approach as unacceptably proscriptive, and reactionary Muslims say it is Islamaphobic. But it is time to speak out against this objectionable garment and face down the obscurantists who endlessly bait and intimidate the state by making demands that violate its fundamental principles. That they have brainwashed young women, born free, to seek self-subjugation breaks my heart. Trained creatures often choose to stay in their cages even when released. I don't call...
...surprisingly this Swiss family company, now helmed by Alice's grandsons Albert and Peter Kriemler?the designer and the president, respectively?is lauded by retailers for its precise deliveries and perfect execution (at the factory, each garment is accompanied by a dossier explaining what needs to be done and what can go wrong) as well as for actually listening to what stores want. When Joseph Boitano, a senior vice president of Saks Fifth Avenue, explained the importance of offering a cruise collection (a concept less established in Europe), Albert headed to Florida, where he spent weeks studying what chic women...
...Plenty of factory owners feel less constrained. Garment makers and other low-tech manufacturers are increasingly shifting production from Shenzhen to cheaper locales, often the poor provinces of western China or, on occasion, other Asian countries like Indonesia and Vietnam. When companies moved into Shenzhen, "they never thought they'd have to leave a few years later," says Ruby Zhu, senior China economist for the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce...
...very cool, very hip,” Jillson said, adding that students have requested more clothing stores for a “younger crowd.” She also said that the business philosophy of American Apparel, whose web site says it offers the highest wages in the garment industry, paid time off, and affordable health care to all its employees, “works well in Cambridge.” Jinny Nathans, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, said that American Apparel had contacted the Fund to discuss the store’s appearance. “They?...
DIED. Evelyn Dubrow, 95, relentless, pragmatic Washington lobbyist whose advocacy for garment workers over 40 years on Capitol Hill earned her the Presidential Medal of Freedom; in Washington. Affection for Dubrow was such that she became the only person ever to be granted her own seat alongside the congressional doorkeepers outside House chambers...