During the Paris Olympics, Brodie Kane, a podcaster from New Zealand, posted a video to Instagram, railing against safety pins. The post garnered more than 11,000 likes and 750 comments. In the video, ...

“These things are so great and have so many uses in so many areas that I don’t even have to market them. Customers just find me,” says Larry Schwartz, who’s been in the safety-pin business for more ...

A seemingly simple hole on a safety pin, a century-old design, reveals ingenious engineering. This looped termination, born ...

People have long used ribbons, flowers, colors or badges to symbolize political causes, from the carnations of Portugal's 1974 revolution to the orange ribbons of Ukraine's 2004 revolution to the gel ...

While wearing clasps has been in style since ancient Greece (brooches that fastened to togas were the mode du jour), the humble safety pin made its way into the fashion zeitgeist thanks to the ...

But to everyone’s surprise, Prada is doing it. Prada’s safety pin, known as the Crochet Safety Pin Brooch, is essentially an ordinary safety pin accompanied by a colourful crochet cord and the Prada ...

Prada has transformed the humble Indian safety pin into a luxury item, retailing a "safety pin brooch" for $775. This move has sparked widespread internet mockery and debate about the nature of luxury ...