Mar 13, 2016
Contents• What is the Fashion District?• BID• Walk of fame • Decline of the industry• Apparel Industry Task Force
What is the Fashion District ?• Fashion center of New
York • generating $ 14 billion
a year• employs 4.64 million
people • source of work for
immigrants
Garment District
Role in fashion• Setting design trends• famous designers locate the
business here, e.g. Calvin Klein, Oscar De La Renta, Donna Karan
• textile-manufacturing is fading• BUT New York remains the
fashion capital for designers and showrooms
BBusiness IImprovement
DDistrict• Not-for-profit-corporation• established in1993• aim: -promote NY City´s
apparel industry -improve quality
of life and economic vitality
Is New York the fashion capital of the world ?
• Positive aspects: -accumulation of good traits -Mercedes-Benz
fashion week • negative aspects:
-promotion of anorexia among models -
exploitation of Third World workers
Apparel Industry Task Force
• Rids the garment Industry of illegal sweatshops
• inspects working conditions
• do a review of employmentof illegal workers
Apparel Industry Task Force
• Support garment factures which provide
-unemployment -good working
conditions• collected $ 12 million
for workers
Walk of Fame
• The first and onlylandmark, that pays tributeto american fashion
• conditions for designersfor a nomination
• ballots with nomineeswere distributed to 150industry leaders
• commemorative plaque
• Manufacturing in NY has been fading
• exemplyfied by the decline of Garment District
• BID tries to protect the industry
Decline of the industry
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