"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle."
Ernest Hemingway
email me if google hasn't got the answer..Very interesting read. For all the Rapha bashing I hear & read, it is refreshing to see a ‘brand’ not hiding..
Case in point, all those “Made in Italy” or “Made in Japan” luxury brands have more than 50% of the production “Made in China”, yet they do not mention or pass on the benefits.
A while back Monocle interviewed E. Zegna - look for it in the archives - interestingly it was reinforced that the buyer should only know that it is made by E. Zegna, regardless of where it was made as the E. Zegna label should be good enough.
would argue that the problem...obsessed with brands, myself included. Brands need a global...
comes clean. If you are going...China, be upfront about it. Too many companies hide behind...
completely right. But what people continue...overlook is that many factories and...