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a more ethical fashion label
A more ethical clothing label
“I originally conceived the idea of a high end fashion label at least as far back as 2012, and the company was officially founded in Houston, Texas in 2020. After testing the quality of products from China’s most ambitious factories, the xie collection has finally shown the world that China can make clothing that can meet or exceed the quality of the best from the UK, France, and even Italy, with its fashion forward designs and its standard 70 year warranty as well as one year of unlimited free exchanges (mostly in case if a customer finds that the sizing is off). Note that our warranty does not cover holes or stains, although the vast majority of stains should come out in the washing machine. For the stains that still remain, a dry cleaning service should fix pretty much anything other than things like pens and paint.
About our ethics:
In Nathan for You, Nathan talks about how Patagonia wasn’t “ethical enough” and at first, I thought he was being completely serious. Later, I found out that he might have been kidding (I don’t really know), but it begs the question: why don’t high end labels make high paying jobs in the countries that need them most? Why only make clothes in Italy and the UK? Why not China and India? Surely they have skilled labor over there, and if not, surely they could be trained quite readily. Also, the xie collection goes beyond what even Patagonia and what other ethical labels are doing by not only providing jobs for factory workers, but also jobs much higher along the value chain as artists and designers. Because although the poorest in these countries are clamoring for even low paid, factory jobs, many of them would like to be better than that by getting a job as getting an education and becoming a clothing designer.”
-gene xie,
founder of the xie collection
environmental responsibility
we only use 100% natural fabrics in our clothing, which decreases the number of microplastics released into the ocean when the users wash their clothes
fashionable colors
we focus on making clothes out of periwinkle blue and white fabrics, a refreshing escape from all the dark fabrics most people wear.
we also offer mother of pearl and 14k gold plated buttons
durable quality
our signature 100% 12-micron wool fabrics offer the luxury of cashmere, but is 500x more durable. Actually, it is perhaps more durable than many types of cotton!
the most secure computers in the world available to ordinary people, and yes, stronger than titanium too
the only laptop brand used on the International Space Station
About the security features: These computers will be shipped with China’s OpenKylin operating system, the result of many billions of dollars worth of Chinese government spending to make some of the most secure operating systems in the world
Apps and Compatibility:
All installations will include both Firefox and the open source version of Google’s Chrome browser (Chromium) preinstalled.
All installations will also include:
a word processor
a spreadsheet processor
a presentation maker
a secure note-taking app
an email client
a video editing app and an image editing app (note that the free version of Canva is also compatible with all these machines, although you might need to pay around $130/year to get the full experience with Canva Pro). If that is not enough, we also include the open source Blender app to edit videos as well
a music editing app
a photo editor
About the computers:
The Thinkpad P1 gen 6 laptops, Thinkpad X1 Yoga gen 8 convertible, as well as the Thinkpad Z16 gen 1 laptops included in this package have a “beyond 4K” screen resolution of 3840×2400 pixels optimized for YouTube, and a low-blue-light certification. The RTX ada A5000 mobile graphics card is capable of around 30 trillion floating point calculations per second and can use up to 80 watts of power. For comparison, compare this to the 12 trillion calculations per second of the Xbox Series X and the 9 trillion calculations per second of the PlayStation 5. The graphics card in the 16-inch Macbook Pro is 5x slower. The ThinkPad Z16 laptops use an AMD Radeon GPU with around 5 trillion floating point math operations per second, which is in the same ballpark as the top-of-the-line 16-inch MacBook Pro.
It’s not just about speed though – these Thinkpad laptops are water resistant, so accidentally spilling a cup of water on the keyboard won’t completely ruin the computer (though things like apple juice or a frappuccino from Starbucks might make the keyboard and trackpad sticky, but at least your data would still be there), and these laptops can withstand a four-foot drop onto a marble floor, due to the use of space-age materials in the case with a higher strength-to-weight ratio than the strongest titanium alloys known to the public
factories
each factory specializes in making something and many of our products use parts from various factories all over China
