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Article: Solstiss: fashion's lace machine. (Textiles & Trade).(Company Profile)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- October 22, 2002
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NEW YORK -- Caudry, France -- fashion capital? Hardly Although when it comes to fine lace, it's what Paris is to haute couture. A sleepy town back in the mid-l9th century, it now boasts the leading producers of Leavers lace worldwide. It was Solstiss that put Caudry on the map.
Branded in 1974, the lace manufacturer is actually an amalgam of four former competitors. They came together after fashion's Courreges moment in the mid-Sixties, when the demand for lace was at an all-time low. The mill owners decided that, united, they stood a better chance and joined forces to form one company. Although the factories never merged, their marketing, sales and distribution ...