Contents

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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