Factories and Manufacturing

December 24, 2019

Tracing the Path From Fast Fashion to ‘Trashion’

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. December is a season of consumption, […]
December 20, 2019

The Future Is Trashion

The ragpicker of Brooklyn works out of a 750-square-foot storefront a few blocks east of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, down a mostly residential side street in Williamsburg, […]
December 19, 2019

Who Made Your Clothes?

Rumsinah, 44 Role: Zipper operator at PT. Fajarindo Faliman Zipper, which focuses largely on in-house brands Where: Tangerang, Indonesia “Most of my co-workers and I are […]
December 18, 2019

H&M’s Different Kind of Click Bait

The H&M group sells an estimated three billion articles of clothing per year. Its revenue makes it among the top three fashion retailers in the world. […]
October 18, 2019

When Brand Trump Met Brand Vuitton

On Thursday two of the most powerful brands in politics and high fashion collided in Johnson County, Texas, a rural area about a half-hour’s drive south […]
January 14, 2019

A Visit to Seiko’s Mountain Retreat

All the company’s mechanical watches, including the Grand Seiko, are made in the small Japanese town of Shizukuishi.
September 19, 2017

Research Links Early Watch Counterfeits to the Swiss

LONDON — Counterfeiting is a persistent problem in the world of haute horlogerie: Jean-Daniel Pasche, president of the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry, estimates that […]