Factories Quote by Francisco Costa

My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model.

— Paige Butcher

Having come from a working-class family in the rural South, the fashion industry opened my eyes to culture, arts, and the world.

— Trish Goff

My father was a self-employed textile agent, and the shop below his office was an art gallery.

— Lisa Jewell

I grew up in a small town in the Netherlands which, for years, had been a center of textile production.

— Paul Polman

I learned to work with my mother, who had an haute-couture business.

— Gianni Versace

My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.

— David Bailey

My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the…

— Karen Mills

My father, Anthony, was a textile agent who sold fabric in the West End and was away a lot. He was very glamorous. When…

— Lisa Jewell

My family have been wool merchants since the 19th century. My first job, aged 18, was buying fabric from my father to produce and…

— Pier Luigi Loro Piana

I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a…

— Alexander Wang

My parents were workers. My mom, especially in my high school years, was a stock clerk at Kmart... My dad was a bartender that…

— Marco Rubio

I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes.

— Phillip Lim