Tag: Textile industry
Jeans turns 150: Levi Strauss from Upper Franconia – Bavaria is her father
150 years ago, a US authority granted a patent – the birth of blue jeans. A visit to Buttenheim, the home of Löb Strauss, who was to write world history…
Sustainability: recycling clothes – solution or lie?
Augsburg researchers are testing a recycling process that works with AI. They are hoping for a breakthrough in an industry that has a massive impact on the environment. But there…
Shockingly little has changed since the Rana Plaza disaster – the economy
Ten years ago, a large garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed, killing more than a thousand people. The industry has vowed to improve, but many workers in the poor country are…
China: A village wants to stay
Nowhere else are so many jackets and T-shirts sewn as in Guangzhou in southern China. But now the government wants to move the heart of the industry with its 5,000…
Peek & Cloppenburg insolvent: what should happen to the 67 branches – economy
The fashion retailer Peek & Cloppenburg KG Düsseldorf (P&C) has applied for a protective shield procedure at the Düsseldorf District Court. The company announced this on Friday. Restructuring expert Dirk…
Peek & Cloppenburg is insolvent – economy
The fashion retailer Peek & Cloppenburg KG Düsseldorf (P&C) has applied for a protective shield procedure at the Düsseldorf District Court. The company announced this on Friday. Restructuring expert Dirk…
How the Inca used clothing to rule their empire – Knowledge
Inca explorers don’t have it easy. They spend their lives trying to understand this empire better, fathoming its culture, politics and legal understanding. The mere question of how the Incas…
Aquafil: “When I look at a dump, I see a gold mine” – Economics
Perhaps this story begins on the tennis court. It was there that Giulio Bonazzi, born in 1963 as the youngest of four siblings in a family of entrepreneurs, learned to…
Munich: The Five Continents Museum shows embroidered Ottoman cloths. – Munich
This is what paradise could look like. Pavilions and tents in blooming gardens. In between cypresses, plane trees and huge flowers. This scene is depicted on a yağlik, an Ottoman…
Here’s how Fendi wants to revive Italy’s leather industry – Economy
On the roof of the new bag factory, Europe’s fear of crisis takes a day off. The air at the ceremonial opening is wonderfully balmy, the light of the October…