The Closure of Fashion Cities — Die, Workwear!
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The Closure of Fashion Cities — Die, Workwear!
fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory,
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
Samuel Pepys, diarist of the Plague, chronicler of the Great Fire of London, wrote about Spitalfields – the name itself pointing backwards to the leper hospital in medieval times. That site became the vast fruit and veg market roaring into life at 4am every morning except Sunday. In fact, my own house used to belong to an oranges importer. There wa
... See moreJeanette Winterson • Night Side of the River
The fate of the urban environment itself, along with the restaurants and retail that it comprises, will depend upon government interventions at every scale. Without sufficient aid to individuals and small businesses (and even with that aid, to a lesser degree), widespread closures will create a void in commercial real estate demand. Urban brick-and... See more
Toby Shorin • Premonition
Within cities, medieval land uses will also make a comeback: more offices and workshops will be located within homes. More commercial activities will be in pop-up fairs rather than evergreen locations. And all this will happen in the context of other Medieval fixtures: plagues, fragmentation of trade and supply chains, bigotry, lower economic mobil... See more
Dror Poleg • Dror’s Substack | Substack
because there was no coherent idea of an imagined shopper.