LCF and Zegna Foundation use fashion to lead social inclusion project

The project, named ‘Conscious Contemporary Tailoring’, began when Tom Adams, LCF Course Leader for BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Menswear, and menswear designer Bethany Williams visited the San Patrignano workshop in Italy in February 2017.Created to give women in rehab a chance to learn the basics of weaving, the centre worked together with Adams and Williams to produce unique textile samples made by interlacing industrial waste materials, or textile fibres, paper or plastic.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

The fabrics were used as inspiration for a design competition involving 70 LCF menswear students, with the final selection of six winning designed announced…

Junk mail fall post-Brexit deals latest blow to Royal Mail

Although Royal Mail has replaced all Amazon business lost by signing up new retailers, concerns still remain as DHL is ramping up competition and its owner Deutsche Post is muscling into the market by purchasing rival UK Mail.Royal Mail, which was floated in 2013, needs to make more money from parcels to offset falls in its mail business, with households and businesses sending fewer letters.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

It posted a 5 percent drop in first-half profit, with growth in its parcels business not enough to offset a 6 percent deterioration in second-quarter letter volumes.”We have doubts that parcels revenue can fully offset the secular decline in letters revenue,” Liberum …

Nike criticised for product disposal at NY SoHo flagship

A Nike spokeswoman told the New York Times, “A small amount of product at our Nike SoHo store did not meet our standards to restock, recycle or donate so it was disposed of.”This isn’t the first time a big name brand has been condemned for destroying usable merchandise. H&M was under fire in 2010 for slashing the body and cutting the arms and legs off garments before throwing them in trash bags behind H&M locations. Wal-Mart also received slack the same year for disposing of destroyed merchandise in a lot on 35th Street in New York City.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

Many brands look to sample sales to get rid of excess merchandise, but there are a number of reasons br…

Percentage of brides buying ready-to-wear doubles from 2017

According to the survey, 66 percent of brides bought their wedding-day looks at a bridal salon, with the next largest group at 17 percent purchasing their attire at an independent local bridal salon. No matter the location, 83 percent of brides stuck to tradition with a white or off-white dress, down from 92 percent in 2017. The percentage of brides who bought their wedding attire at a ready-to-wear or specialty store increased from 2 percent in 2017 to 4 percent in 2018. 

Only 8 percent bought their wedding-day attire at a national bridal chain, a significant figure in light of the recent David’s Bridal bankruptcy, although the riskiest choice of buying online ranked the lowest at just one percent. No matter where they bought, the survey found that brides spent an average of $…

Sainsbury’s follows rivals in paying business rates during pandemic

The group said on Thursday it would now pay 410 million pounds of business rates in its year to March 2021 and 30 million pounds in the following year.In March, the government and Britain’s devolved administrations exempted all retailers from paying the tax on their store networks for the 2020/21 financial year to help them get through the crisis.คำพูดจาก สล็อต168

The supermarket groups, which have performed well during the pandemic, have been criticised by lawmakers and media for paying shareholder dividends while receiving taxpayer money in the form of property tax relief.However, on Wednesday, Tesco said it would repay the 585 million pounds it has claimed because some …

Skechers goes green for expansion of corporate headquarters and South Bay space

The development at the company’s HQ will include a new design center spanning over 100,000-square-feet, as well as new executive offices on Pacific Coast Highway in Hermosa Beach, while the South Bay expansion will more than double the company’s office, design and showroom space in the region from its original sizeคำพูดจาก เว็บดีฝากถอนปลอดภัย. In addition, the company will expand its existing building on South Sepulveda Boulevard and add a new office across the street in Manhattan Beach.According to a press release, all buildings “are being developed with sustainability in mind to achieve LEED Gold certification upon completion,” with features such as “solar panels…

Surfing gets sustainable with first recyclable wetsuit

A combination of salt water, UV rays and the wear-and-tear of life in the surf means most wetsuits only last a couple of years before they start to lose warmth and elasticity. Made from non-biodegradable rubber neoprene, surfers are often stuck with their old gear.“There’s a lot of wetsuits out in people’s garages and houses,” Tom Kay, founder of sustainable outdoor wear brand Finisterre, told Reuters from the company’s headquarters near the rugged headlands of St Agnes in Cornwall.

“Most wetsuits only last two years and after that there’s no known guidance about what to do with them at the end of their life… And neoprene is a very unbiodegradable fabric,” he added.Neoprene is a widely used petroleum-based synthetic rubber known for its thermal insulation and snu…

US Congress explores options on border tax opposed by retailers

The measure, a centerpiece of the House Republican tax reform blueprint backed by Speaker Paul Ryan, is intended to encourage investment and manufacturing in the United States. But it faces mounting pressure from U.S. retailers, oil refiners and automakers who fear it could result in higher prices for consumer goods including gasoline.Major U.S. exporters on Thursday threw their support behind a border tax, but President Donald Trump has sent mixed signals and some U.Sคำพูดจาก สล็อตpg. Senate Republicans question whether it would pass muster under international trade rules.

“We are listening carefully and exploring a number of ideas on both design and the transition of this provision to…

Walmart’s Flipkart says Indian probe shouldn’t treat it the same as Amazon

Both Amazon and Flipkart have challenged the Competition Commission of India (CCI) in court as they seek revocation of an Indian court’s June decision to allow an antitrust probe against them to continueคำพูดจาก Game Casino. The companies deny any wrongdoing.India’s government has called the U.S. firms arrogant and accused them of using legal routes to stall the investigation.

In final submissions made to a court in southern India’s Karnataka state, the Walmart unit argued that CCI and the court “confuse the facts” between the case of Amazon and Flipkart, and overlooked that they were “fierce competitors”.To back its arguments, it said that a business agreement examined by the CCI before o…

Women pickers toil unprotected in Pakistan’s cotton fields

At first, Batool, 32, thought cotton picking would bring her a reliable income after the death of her husband in 2009. But she was unaware of the health risks the work posed.She has been suffering from recurring headaches, skin and eye ailments since she started cotton picking, and can spend as much as a third of her $80 monthly income on health bills.

“Every season I suffer problems when I return home after cotton picking. But I cannot abandon the job because my two children depend on me,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.Women labourers make up the bulk of the estimated half a million cotton pickers in Pakistan, the world’s fourth biggest cotton producer.With the widespread use of pesticides, and a lack of safety equipment, Batool’s story is familiar to many of th…