The relationship between factory and museum goes the other way, too: the chairs in the museum cafe were made from the factory's products and assembled by its workers.
Lastly, the relationship between factory and retailer changes.
The reader becomes a fly on the wall in the village's political infighting and in the fraught relationship between factory bosses and migrant workers.Foreign correspondents rarely have time as they explore China's vastness to return to places where there is little going on that seems worthy of a headline.
As a result, it is tempting to bring in a third party to handle the relationship with factories.
This picture has, however, been nuanced by the consideration of different parts of London: while some Middlesex parishes such as St Clement Danes clearly did cultivate relationships with factory industrialists at the turn of the century, others remained tied to smaller-scale manufacture close to London.
They said the company establishes multiyear relationships with factories and keeps track of every subcontractor, including small workshops that might screen-print T-shirts and embroider clothes.
"They have realised they need the capability to make in the UK, and if they don't build relationships with factories now, they will be gone".
The Hong Kong-born Hockin, who graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2006, has spent the last decade freelancing for high street and high-end brands alike, such as Valentino Red, Jaeger and Salvatore Ferragamo, where she built relationships with factories in Italy.
Figure 2 depicts network structure of the proposed model and the relationships between factories and their suppliers as well as the customer markets.
Items are selected through the founders' relationships with factories – they find out the top-selling items, and tack on their extra volume to the end of the production run, which keeps costs down.
