Ready for Battle: OnPoint
OnPoint’s on-demand manufacturing facility in Florence, Ala.
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Ready for Battle: OnPoint
Image Credit: Taylor Best/WWD Technology-driven workflows is what experts predict will power the shift in the U.S. garment manufacturing industry, post-pandemic.
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Ready for Battle: OnPoint
Image Credit: Taylor Best/WWD Masks are being cut. Much of the processes at OnPoint are automated.
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Ready for Battle: OnPoint
Image Credit: Taylor Best/WWD Masks are bundled in sets of 25. Best told WWD that a network of manufacturers partnered to cover production costs and offer the masks pro-bono.
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Ready for Battle: New Balance
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo New Balance associate using and fabricating face masks at the company’s Lawrence, MA factory.
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Ready for Battle: New Balance
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo The company estimates it will produce 100,000 masks a week and also working toward surgical mask certification.
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Ready for Battle: New Balance
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo New Balance president and ceo Joe Preston, at the company’s Lawrence, MA factory.
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Ready for Battle: Los Angeles Apparel
Image Credit: Michael Buckner/WWD The Los Angeles Apparel facility has produced more than 100,000 non-medical masks.
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Ready for Battle: Los Angeles Apparel
Image Credit: Michael Buckner/WWD WorkersÕ sewing stations were moved 6 feet apart to comply with social distancing guidelines.
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Ready for Battle: Los Angeles Apparel
Image Credit: Michael Buckner/WWD Los Angeles Apparel is part of a consortium of manufacturers producing masks and PPE, with production funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, with a goal of producing 10 million masks a week.
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Ready for Battle: Los Angeles Apparel
Image Credit: Michael Buckner/WWD Dov Charney founded Los Angeles Apparel in 2016, a vertically-integrated brand follow-up to his previous venture, American Apparel.
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Ready for Battle: Hickey Freeman
Image Credit: Matt Wittmeyer/WWD Heritage menswear brand Hickey Freeman made the decision March 23 to convert the companyÕs factory in Rochester, New York, in operation since 1912, into a facility to produce protective face masks.
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Ready for Battle: Hickey Freeman
Image Credit: Matt Wittmeyer/WWD Rochester General Hospital approached Hickey Freeman about the making masks and shipped 33 boxes of surgical drapes to use as material to the factory to supply the effort.
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Ready for Battle: Hickey Freeman
Image Credit: Matt Wittmeyer/WWD Hickey Freeman has been able to rehire 100 workers and hopes to add another 100.
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Ready for Battle: Christian Siriano
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo A look at the mask production space.
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Ready for Battle: Christian Siriano
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo A seamstress at work for Christian Siriano’s effort.
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Ready for Battle: Christian Siriano
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo A close-up of masks designed by Christian Siriano s group.
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Ready for Battle: Christian Siriano
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo Christian Siriano is leading a team to make masks and gowns for relief workers.
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Ready for Battle: Bednark x Duggal Greenhouse
Image Credit: Lexie Moreland/WWD For the close-up of the gloves: Workers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard are taking safety precautions with protective gear.
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Ready for Battle: Bednark x Duggal Greenhouse
Image Credit: Lexie Moreland/WWD Workers from Bednark Studio and Duggal Visual Solutions are part of a group effort making face shields in The Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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Ready for Battle: Bednark x Duggal Greenhouse
Image Credit: Lexie Moreland/WWD Workers from Bednark Studio and Duggal Visual Solutions are part of a group effort making face shields in The Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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Ready for Battle: Bednark x Duggal Greenhouse
Image Credit: Lexie Moreland/WWD An aerial view of the group effort underway at Bednark Studio with help from Duggal Visual Solutions.
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Ready for Battle: 19th Amendment
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo Fabric.com donated fabric for use of Nineteenth Amendment’s small-batch manufacturers and independent makers.
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Ready for Battle: 19th Amendment
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo Independent designers like Victoria Yee Howe fuel the network effect of Nineteenth Amendment’s mask-making initiative.
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Ready for Battle: 19th Amendment
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo The “Buy One, Give Many” fund-raising campaign funds production costs for Nineteenth Amendment and its network of manufacturers and designers.
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Ready for Battle: 19th Amendment
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo Fabric masks are not medical-grade but are rather intended for frontline essential workers, such as food delivery or grocery clerks. Here are stacks of fabric masks, completed by Howe.
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Ready for Battle: 19th Amendment
Image Credit: Courtesy Photo Sketches sit atop Leetal Platt’s work station where the tech pack is pulled up on the screen.