Le roi de la fermeture-éclair
N.Y. Times, A life in Zippers.
Then came the Sept. 11 attacks. “They couldn’t get their goods in,” he said. “That was the end of the business.”
But not for Mr. Feibusch, a prewar refugee from Vienna who overcame not just the Nazis but also Velcro, and opened his business on Dec. 7, 1941, of all days.