"The Fifties. Fashion in France (1947-1957)" exhibit at Palais Galliera
Standard Textile CEO Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Gary Heiman, president and chief executive officer of Standard Textile, was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2014 South Central Ohio & Kentucky Awards gala.
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Thrift Store Sells Damaged Items to Textile Recyclers
Anne Watson shakes her head when she thinks about all of the stained, holey T-shirts she has pitched over the years."I thought, 'we can't even use that,' " she said, of her family, "so why would we donate it?"
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Heimtextil India Sets Benchmark for Textile Innovations
The debut edition of Heimtextil India - the world’s most renowned home furnishing and textile trade fair, proved to be an outstanding trade platform as it completed its three-day run on 21 June, 2014 at Pragati Maidan with several companies closing a record number of deals on the show floor.
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Fashion Retail Gets a High-Tech Makeover
Although the classic image of the Los Angeles area’s $46 billion fashion industry is underpaid workers hunched over sewing machines in sweatshoplike environments, Combatant Gentlemen represents a new guard of businesses that are modernizing the way fashion is sold.
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Designers Turn Out for Fifties' Fashion Exhibit
Claude Montana, Guillaume Henry and Bruno Frisoni turned out on Thursday evening to see "The Fifties. Fashion in France (1947-1957)" exhibition dedicated to the golden age of French couture. It opens Saturday at Paris’ Palais Galliera fashion museum.
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