New York City's garment district is about a mile and several eons from Andrew Rosen's offices at 38 Gansevoort Street.

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If New Orleans is the cradle of jazz, then New York's Garment District is where jazz spoke its first words.

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Meanwhile, the Refinery Hotel, located in a former hat factory in the Garment District, has suffused its design with nods both to the millinery and the building's Neo-Gothic exterior.

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Most of them work in a single Hong Kong-owned factory in the garment district next to Kingston's port, which has 3, 000 Jamaican staff and work permits for 400 Asian supervisors.

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She then spent years, in New York's Garment District along Seventh Avenue, making sketches and picking up pins for male designers who proved cloth-eared where her ideas for fashions were concerned.

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New York's Garment District buzzes with ethnic Koreans.

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In Tanah Abang, Jakarta's garment-distribution district, Santoso grabbed what he could.

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In June, employees at a garment factory in Takhmau district north of Phnom Penh complained of receiving electric shocks from their sewing machines but were ordered to keep working.

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In a separate development, the overnight fire at the 11-storey garment factory in Dhaka's Mirpur district killed at least eight people.

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