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...hardest areas for women, I think, even more challenging than finding the right face cream, is finding the right thing to wear. Once you hit a certain age, it's hard to find the garment that says, "I still care, don't count me out, but I'm not delusional." If you go too young, you look desperate. If you go too old, you go right to Queen Mum. I was in a store a while ago and I saw this really cute shirt and the young boutique owner rushed over to me and said, "That top is adorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beth Teitell: On Not Looking Old | 10/14/2008 | See Source »

...those are only short-term fixes. For export-oriented Asian economies, the specter of a protracted U.S. recession remains daunting. Tommy Lam, owner of a garment factory in Dongguan, a Chinese city near Hong Kong, says that he has already seen a reduction in demand. "We're not getting the repeat orders we're supposed to get," Lam says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asian Stocks Rebound After Last Week's Record Rout | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

...femme. They played together in only one previous picture: Tai Chi Master in 1993, the busiest year of the Hong Kong Renaissance, when the colony's robust movies enthralled action fans around the globe, and the leading actors were worked as hard as pre-teen seamstresses in a Guangzhou garment factory. (Li and Yeoh each made five other films that year.) Now both 45, they have lost little of their agility and none of their screen luster. Their duel atop the Great Wall of China is a reunion of titans, an Old Timers' Day for two actor-athletes still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong Revives The Mummy | 8/1/2008 | See Source »

...ever sit down, take out the old sewing machine, and just make something? -Gina Chen, Troy, MII am resourceful and time-conscious and sometimes what I'll do is hem a pair of pants, do something very basic like that. I am not sitting down and creating a garment from scratch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Tim Gunn | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

...resources that could be channeled toward improving labor conditions. "If factories are getting monitored on average 25 times a year, that's every two weeks you have to check your records and talk to workers," says Michael Kobori, head of supply chain social and environmental sustainability at U.S. garment manufacturer Levi Strauss. "It's no wonder management is so occupied with these monitors that they have no time to make improvements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manufacturing: The Burden of Good Intentions | 6/11/2008 | See Source »

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