He said Wal-Mart wants to encourage retailers to work together by publishing audit results, so other clothing buyers are aware of Wal-Mart's concerns.

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Design teams work directly with clothing manufacturers to create private-label lines, avoiding the mark-up applied by apparel companies which normally serve as middlemen between retailers and manufacturers.

ECONOMIST: Retailing

He said those convicted but not jailed would be made to go out into the communities they vandalised wearing "orange clothing" to carry out clean-up work.

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Alec Shelbrooke said the card could be provided to out-of-work people on benefits to pay for travel, food, clothing, energy and housing.

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Founded in 1976 by designer Claiborne (now retired), the company has branched beyond its signature line of stylish work clothing to lines like DKNY casual apparel, Lucky Brand jeans and Enyce hip-hop attire.

FORBES: No Fashion Victim

In addition, the web-based service is able to do complicated computation on behalf of a robot - for example if it needs to work out how to navigate a room, fold an item of clothing or understand human speech.

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