Guests are invited to bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating, and to bring a picnic, or purchase food from any of the Southern Village food establishments. All performances are free, and will be held on the stage at the Village Green in Southern Village. The race begins at 2 pm at Hillsborough Street. Food courtesy of The Q Shack and Whole Foods, as well as face-painting, a bouncy house, a mobile video-gaming van, and great door prizes.
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Home About. Weekend Picks! September th. Pepper Festival in Chapel Hill on October 6th! Make sure you save the date and get your tickets today for the 6th annual Pepper Festival. Cash bar with pepper-infused beers, wines, and liquors! One of the most intriguing prospects of Lyf is that sizes can be created and assembled without mass production, which means that someone with unusally sized feet, or feet of different sizes — one a size bigger than the other, for instance — could order a pair of Lyfs to fit them exactly.
Khalifa estimates he has over 4, different size files available, and the number is growing. The impetus to design footwear evolved naturally for Khalifa, who worked at Performance Bicycle after earning dual engineering and product design degrees from N. State University. Operations manager Joey Fralin preps 3-D printers.
Khalifa lays out the components of a Lyf shoe. There are also 50 materials in an average pair of shoes. Khalifa points out the system is called a circular economy, where products are intentionally designed from the beginning with their entire lifecycle in mind. A Lyf shoe prototype made of 3-D printed components and recycled airplane seat material.
What has made the work of these young designers so successful, especially in a weakened economy? The garments are handmade by individual workers in small numbers each day with the focus strictly on quality and craftsmanship. Their employees stitch the garments on vintage sewing machines recovered from numerous, inoperative old textile factories in North Carolina. The Lytvinenkos have made the history of textiles in North Carolina a central part of building their own company.
Many of the techniques, machines and skills that they utilize in their manufacturing process were on the verge of extinction. They are not just living the American dream — they are also putting the American stamp back on textiles in North Carolina.
The Lytvinenkos have said that their company has grown much quicker than they ever imagined it would. However, they will never outgrow their commitment to their original vision.
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