Industry Trends and News

William Gee have been selected to supply LOCOG, the organising committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, with many products throughout this year. Thousands of costumes have been produced for the opening and closing ceremonies, and last night’s spectacular opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, just down the road from where we are, was […]

EXCHANGE SERIES – DALSTON – 12 DEC 2011 – 12 JAN 2012 8 SHOPS 8 DESIGNERS 8 VISUAL DIALOGUES OVER CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR We are really happy to take part in this “Exchange Series” which is a “festive dialogue between shopkeepers and designers that takes the form of 8 small interventions into the landscape […]

We understand that for various reasons manufacturers are bringing back production to UK based factories. Articles emanating from Marks and Spencer, Philip Green (Arcadia Group) and many others have testified to thisd welcome news. Over the past few years many UK clothing factories had to close their doors when orders were sent to East Europe, […]

Over the last few weeks we have been bombarded with price increases from suppliers of many different products relating to cotton (of course), papers, polyester based products (that have their origin in oil!) and this has meant that prices have had to go up. On the one hand we know that everyone has been “afflicted” […]