If You Can’t Trust Loro Piana, Who Can You Trust?

In a factory on the outskirts of Milan, a Chinese tailor spent the last 10 years sewing jackets for just under $5 an hour. He worked 13-hour days without a single day off. Late last year, he stopped getting paid at all. When he complained, his employer beat him so badly with an aluminium and plastic tube that he had to go to the emergency room, according to court documents reviewed by

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