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How Designers Choose Fabrics: The Sourcing and Testing Process Behind Collections
From fibre to finished cloth: how the textile supply chain shapes what designers choose, and how they test drape, durability, and dye before a collection is cut.

From fibre to finished cloth: how the textile supply chain shapes what designers choose, and how they test drape, durability, and dye before a collection is cut.

Heritage, craft and restraint do the work a price tag cannot — and the economics explain why.

A couture gown's price is built from three costs — material, handwork and the months of fitting — and almost none of it is published.

Authentication, price history and secondhand demand have become story material in their own right, not just a footnote to the runway.