Discussions about the fashion industry thread

[gdl203]

I heard this morning from Michele Rota (Our trousers makers near Parma). Their workshop has been closed for weeks now but they are reopening next week solely to produce masks to donate to hospitals and doctors. They’ve been working with health officials to set specs

 

[cb200]

There's a crazy amount of initiates going on to produce masks and other soft goods at home if you search twitter and face book. I think it's positive emotion of people looking to do the right thing. I know Canadian and US governments are looking to sort out who's got domestic capacity and what supplies are on hand.

I think thee needs to be some acceptance that for volume production there are obvious solutions in Asia. Domestic solutions are preferable but a clear eyed view I think will show limitations in that approach.

LVMH orders 40 million masks from China for France

LVMH <LVMH.PA>, the world's biggest luxury goods group, is ordering 40 million health masks from a Chinese supplier to help France cope with the coronavirus outbreak.

www.reuters.com

I'd like to see other large brands use their logistics & relationship in the short term and a reinvestment in the long term in local diversified production.

 

[OccultaVexillum]

I thought this was cool. Keeps some production going to keep factory workers employed and also benefits ERKN as a small business.
In case the link to IG doesn’t work:

Spoiler

 

[clee1982]

Is there any face mask factory in the US?

Per this article China make a **** ton (200 million a day), but very few are N95 due to shortage of material rather than production capacity

COVID-19 Has Caused A Shortage Of Face Masks. But They're Surprisingly Hard To Make

China makes millions of masks. But ramping up production is tricky. "Making masks is not as easy as you imagine," a pharmaceutical executive in China says.

www.npr.org

 

[OccultaVexillum]

I’m sure there are factories somewhere in the US that make masks. 3M, proctor gamble, Johnson and Johnson and people like that. I’m just guessing though.
A lot of designers have turned to making masks right now though.
HickeyFreeman are sewing masks and sending patterns to anybody with sewing equipment and skills to produce them (I don’t know why this hasn’t been advertised here).
And even Christian Siriano is doing it.

CFDA

cfda.com

All of this makes Zams bullshit even more upsetting.

 

[Todd Shelton]

HickeyFreeman are sewing masks and sending patterns to anybody with sewing equipment and skills to produce them (I don’t know why this hasn’t been advertised here)

Thanks for posting about Hickey Freeman. That was news to me. I searched and found articles about what they're doing. I reached out requesting information.

 

[dieworkwear]

HickeyFreeman are sewing masks and sending patterns to anybody with sewing equipment and skills to produce them (I don’t know why this hasn’t been advertised here).

This is the project JefferyD is working on. I believe the HF factory is closed, however, so they're doing this through a home network of sewers. @Bromley posted about this earlier

Sew From Home – Work From Home

robertjeffery.us

Work From Home – Help the homeland defeat the virus!

robertjeffery.us

 

[clee1982]

I’m sure there are factories somewhere in the US that make masks. 3M, proctor gamble, Johnson and Johnson and people like that. I’m just guessing though.
A lot of designers have turned to making masks right now though.
HickeyFreeman are sewing masks and sending patterns to anybody with sewing equipment and skills to produce them (I don’t know why this hasn’t been advertised here).
And even Christian Siriano is doing it.

CFDA

cfda.com

All of this makes Zams bullshit even more upsetting.

such a low margin business in the US though? Isn’t like 60% mask made in China

 

[OccultaVexillum]

Cool cool cool, yeah i don't know much about Hickey Freeman other than the fact it's kind of local to me, but that stuff isn't really in my wheel house. i only knew about it from some of the discord guys @troika and @Teger
So thanks for adding those links.
Whatever people can do to help is worth the effort.
I'm going to pull out my sewing machine to play around with and see if i can get my skills up enough to hopefully help out.

 

[smittycl]

This is the project JefferyD is working on. I believe the HF factory is closed, however, so they're doing this through a home network of sewers. @Bromley posted about this earlier

Sew From Home – Work From Home

robertjeffery.us

Work From Home – Help the homeland defeat the virus!

robertjeffery.us

I just shared with two retired Army friends who live and work in Rochester. Thanks for posting!!!!

 

[LA Guy]

This is the project JefferyD is working on. I believe the HF factory is closed, however, so they're doing this through a home network of sewers. @Bromley posted about this earlier

Sew From Home – Work From Home

robertjeffery.us

Work From Home – Help the homeland defeat the virus!

robertjeffery.us

If you or @jefferyd can write this up and then ping me, we can put this put on the frontpage and the notice. As a policy for site hygiene, we don't do outbound links from either of those places, so you can post anywhere on the forum (probably CM makes the most sense).

 

[smittycl]

I just shared with two retired Army friends who live and work in Rochester. Thanks for posting!!!!

They said the request was carried on local news and had a great local response!

 

[Todd Shelton]

One of my seamstresses made this for me Wednesday before we shut down. I didn't ask her to, she was trying to do something nice. It's dress shirt fabric. This mask would do nothing other than (maybe) make someone feel more protected if they had nothing else. But if local health workers need help till bigger help comes, I can look into how I could make this better.

 

[clee1982]

I hope we’re not as desperate as to use shirting fabric as alternative for medical worker... though I suppose that is better than nothing...

 

[cb200]

Research on non medical fabric masks in clinical use:

A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers | BMJ Open

bmjopen.bmj.com

There is no nothing in the study.