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According to Reuters , Philip Green, the chief of the Arcadia Group, has joined the conversation on UK manufacturing. M&I thinks it is promising that someone of his stature should be considering shifting some production back to Britain. "When the market is as it is you want to manage as near home as you can. That's why there's some debate about UK manufacturing and people actually opening some new factories," Green told the Retail Week conference. "Is suddenly all our production coming back here? No. Is there an opportunity to do some production here? Hopefully there is and we're going to try," Green added. Image from Cooper Stollbrand , Manchester (one of the factories that has recently produced items for Topshop, part of the Arcadia Group)

'I am committed now to wearing Scottish knitwear. I consider it a political statement. It's not even that much more expensive than Chinese knits and it lasts a lot longer.' It's not often that we enjoy reading interviews with fashion designers but this one with APC chief Jean Touitou in Hint Fashion Magazine made us smile. A good weekend to all our readers. Factory image from Robert Noble

'The UK needs to rediscover its talent for making things.' Sir James Dyson , 2010 ( from Dezeen )

'I've got a real integrity to what I do. I make everything in England, which isn't easy these days. It's a labour of love.' 'I'm not really interested in doing things that don't work in the long term. All of the fabrics I use are really wonderful, really practical. It's clothing for men, after all.' Taken from a short piece featuring Mr. Nigel Cabourn in GQ Essentials / Autumn+Winter 2010. Image from Journal de Nimes