Como is the center of Italian silk production and serves the world's top fashion houses. But competition from China and changes in the luxury market are shaking up the textiles industry. Walking ...

SILK CUT: As it prepares to show its cruise collection on Italy’s Lake Como, Chanel has invested in a historic local silk producer as part of its ongoing policy of supporting long-term manufacturing ...

Like many traditional Jewish brides, Dora Piperno wanted to give her future husband a tallit — a Jewish prayer shawl — as a wedding gift. With one difference: She wanted to give him a tallit made of ...

This article traces the Paterson Italian anarchist groups and the repression they faced, as well as looking into their views on race in America. In the large and sophisticated literature on ethnic ...

It has been forty years since Italy’s world-renowned silk makers were forced to abandon the last spinning mills on Italian soil, becoming victims of an increasingly competitive Chinese market. But now ...

The town of Bellagio is on a promontory at the junction of the lake’s two arms. Noted for its silk shops as well as its idyllic setting, it’s about a 40-minute hydrofoil jaunt from Como. Scott S.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte signed up his country Saturday to China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an ambitious trillion-dollar transcontinental trade and infrastructure project. The ...

Italy's Emilia-Romagna regional government will hold talks with Silk-FAW next week over fears the Sino-US venture's plans to invest €1bn (roughly R17.1bn) to produce electric sports cars in the area ...

Silk-FAW has plan to invest over 1 billion euros in Italy Plans to build facility in Reggio Emilia, northern Italy Car production was expected to start at beginning of 2023 Regional government sets up ...