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American workwear brand Carhartt launches European e-commerce

Carhartt, the American workwear brand founded in 1889, is launching an online shop for consumers based in the European Union. The website is available in English, Dutch and German, but more languages will follow in the future. “We’re very proud to bring the brand American workers have relied on for nearly 130 years to Europe’s blue-collar men...

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Cordura and Carhartt launch workwear collection

The durable fabric retailer Cordura has joined forces with the workwear brand Carhartt for the Full Swing Steel line. The collection was developed following an extensive consumer insight study and offers durable work items including the Men’s Full Swing Steel Jacket, Steel Cargo Pant, Steel Double Front Pant and Steel Multi-Pocket Pant. The...

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Why do fashion designers dress themselves in uniforms?

What does Giorgio Armani have in common with Steve Jobs, Karl Lagerfeld with Mark Zuckerberg, Anna Wintour with Mother Teresa? They are associated with wearing an instantly recognizable daily uniform. Jobs and Zuckerberg might be said to dress for the technology industry, Mother Teresa had little time for trends, but fashion designers and...

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Why do fashion designers dress themselves in uniforms?

What does Giorgio Armani have in common with Steve Jobs, Karl Lagerfeld with Mark Zuckerberg, Anna Wintour with Mother Teresa? They are associated with wearing an instantly recognizable daily uniform. Jobs and Zuckerberg might be said to dress for the technology industry, Mother Teresa had little time for trends, but fashion designers and...

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Lidewij Edelkoort’s Labour of Love: Rethinking work and clothing

“After ‘Anti-Fashion’ and the ‘Emancipation of Everything’ it comes down to the clothes. And it is all just about the clothes, then it has to be the starting point of us finding new ideas within clothing,” said trend forecaster and futurist Lidewij Edelkoort in her new trend presentation ‘Labour of Love’, in which the clothing of the working man...

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