Electro is definitely an obsession for this Finnish duo (Tatu Peltonen and Tatu Metsätähti) but it has less to do with the synthetic clothes than sophisticated synths. The retro impulse behind ...

Born in the tiny town of Saint-Saphorin-sur-Morges in 1907, George de Mestral filed his first patent at the age of 12, for a toy airplane. “He was driven to invent,” says Fraser Cameron, president and ...

Seven decades after the invention of Velcro fastener, a Japanese company is looking to give the product a facelift. Textile and chemical maker Teijin Ltd. said it has developed a new fabric fastener ...

Buttons are forever a classic necessity. Zippers are having a memorable moment under the spotlight. Hooks, toggles, tied-off closures—all of these fasteners have had on-again-off-again relationships ...

Inspiration can strike without warning. Consider Swiss engineer George de Mestral, who got some burs on his wool socks while walking his dog one fateful day in 1948. As De Mestral pulled off the burs, ...

Mr. Velcro Fastener's follow-up to Lucky Bastards Living Up North is an evolution of their electro robotic breakbeat sound. Tidier and spinning a deeper groove than previous Fastener endeavours, ...