Transforming Clothing Production into a Demand-driven, Knowledge-based, High-tech Industry
Recent trends in the fashion market (including an impressive increase in the number of new collections, product assortments and variants, and the emerging mass-customization model) dictate the need for a new approach. Transforming Clothing Production into
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Lutz Walter · George-Alexander Kartsounis Stefano Carosio
Transforming Clothing Production into a Demand-driven, Knowledge-based, High-tech Industry The Leapfrog Paradigm
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George-Alexander Kartsounis Lutz Walter European Apparel and Textile Confederation Dept. Science Agricultural University of Athens (EURATEX) Iera Odos 75 rue Montoyer 24 118 51 Athens 1000 Brussels Greece Belgium [email protected] [email protected] Stefano Carosio D’Appolonia S.p.A. Via San Nazaro, 19 16145 Genova Italy [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-84882-607-6 e-ISBN 978-1-84882-608-3 DOI 10.1007/978-1-84882-608-3 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2009933638 c Springer-Verlag London Limited 2009 ®
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Preface
In 2001 at EURATEX’s office in Brussels, the sight of two divergent lines on the same graph gave birth to LEAPFROG. The first line showed a surplus in the then EU-15s balance of trade in textiles (yarns and fabrics) that over the years had grown, albeit slowly. The second line showed a rapidly worsening trade deficit in apparel. This was at a time when the textiles and apparel industry as a whole was conscious of the massive additional pressures it would face when China joined the World Trade Organization and the quota system that had governed international trade in textiles and apparel for close to forty years disappeared in December 2004. The conclusion drawn from the two lines on the graph was simple enough: high-wage cou
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