I guess the big
I guess the big thing is that I don’t buy anything first-hand. It’s a personal policy I have for all sorts of reasons. If you research to the textile industry yourself, you’ll know why. I came to it personally. Ezra Miller
Textiles
I want to combine
I want to combine a business major with studies in clothing and textiles. Evelyn Ashford
If you don\’t have
If you don’t have customers to sell to, you can’t commit to anything with textile factories or manufacturing factories because you don’t know if you’ll be able to sell the quantities they’re asking you to fill. Fred Foster
My parents had a
My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry. Francisco Costa
Both Italy and Britain
Both Italy and Britain have a great tailoring tradition. British men are famously elegant and careful with their style: they love to have their clothes tailored, and they often have a trusted tailor who is passed on from father to son. Plus you have this great textile and fabric tradition, which has been a source … Read more
What I resist is
What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find that they miss the condition. I am comfortable with the notion of pattern and ornament as a system of organization, [but] for me it acts as a textile. So it’s not about pattern, … Read more
In some conditions, the
In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the world of scarce materiality and a hybridity becomes a way of creating a new authenticity. Sometimes there is a certain kind of nobility of a group of materials literally of the … Read more
We bought a doomed
We bought a doomed textile mill [Berkshire Hathaway] and a California S&L [Savings & Loan; Wesco] just before a calamity. Both were bought at a discount to liquidation value. Charlie Munger
The great lesson in
The great lesson in microeconomics is to discriminate between when technology is going to help you and when it’s going to kill you. And most people do not get this straight in their heads. But a fellow like Buffett does. For example, when we were in the textile business, which is a terrible commodity business, … Read more
The evolution was always
The evolution was always to greater scale and speed. Other countries did that here and there – GB in textiles, Germany in steel – but we went in that direction almost across the board. Charles R. Morris