Not only the film industry

Culture and business have intertwined in the central Polish city of Łódź for dozens of years. On the one hand there was the world-esteemed Łódź film school and the Łódź Kaliska group of artist performers, on the other there were smoking factory chimneys mainly on textile mills. David Lynch could be called the first to reconcile those two separate natures of Łódź city. It seems he is interested in a 9-hectares site in the Retkinia estate and a building of 2,000 sqm in the centre city where a film-producing and student-educating company is to be constructed. Negotiations with Łódź city officials are proceeding apace. Making jeans Meetings and negotiations have reached a successful conclusion, on the other hand, concerning an investment by another American giant, not in films but in clothing. Lee jeans have been produced, to the present, in a hall sub-let from the Merloni Indesit consortium. Their production is to be shifted soon to a new plan