They are scrounging for fabric, cutting it up, stitching it together. They are repurposing drapes, dresses, bra straps, shower curtains, even coffee filters. They are building […]
ImageBoth tourists and New Yorkers on March 14, at the World Trade Center in New York City.Credit…Elizabeth Bick for The New York Times Last week the […]
This article is part of our latest special report on Design, which is about getting personal with customization. When Wid Chapman and Shachi Shah purchased their […]
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, […]
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 […]
Advertisement CreditYou Sun Edda Gimnes “If someone had told me all of the things that would happen to me after leaving university just two years ago, […]