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The Credit Line Widens: Fashion Honors the Hands Behind the Label

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This Labor Day, WWD is turning its archive toward the workroom rather than the runway, honoring the tailors, cutters and seamstresses whose hands finish what a designer only sketches. It is a reminder that the name stitched into a label rarely tells the whole story of who made the garment. Every hem, seam and closure carries craft that seldom gets its own bow.

With reporting from WWD.

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