Knowra Fashion industry Fashion industry The network of businesses that design, produce, market, and sell clothing and accessories. It spans global supply chains, creative work, retail, and media.
Fashion design : The practice of creating clothing and accessories, balancing form, function, materials, and intended use. Designers establish the styles and specifications that guide production.
Fast fashion : A business model that rapidly turns current styles into relatively inexpensive clothing produced at high volume. It compresses design-to-retail timelines and drives frequent product turnover.
Garment worker : A person employed to make clothing, often performing cutting, sewing, finishing, or related factory work. Garment workers bear the human consequences of production costs and sourcing decisions.
Coco Chanel : A French fashion designer and businesswoman who built an influential house known for modern womenswear and perfume. Chanel made a designer's name a powerful commercial fashion brand.
Sustainable fashion : Design and business approaches that seek to reduce fashion's environmental and social harms. Its goals raise questions about what meaningful industry-wide improvement requires.
Apparel manufacturing : The industrial production of clothing, including fabric cutting, sewing, finishing, and quality control. Factories turn designs and materials into garments for sale.
Luxury goods : High-priced products associated with exceptional materials, craftsmanship, design, or brand prestige. Luxury brands compete through exclusivity and status rather than fast, low-cost turnover.
Rana Plaza collapse : The 2013 collapse of a garment-factory building in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 people. The disaster exposed severe safety failures in global garment supply chains.
Christian Dior : A French fashion designer whose 1947 collection established the postwar silhouette later known as the New Look. Dior's house demonstrated how a signature collection could drive global fashion business.
Fashion transparency : The disclosure of information about fashion companies' suppliers, practices, and impacts. Transparency can reveal supply-chain conditions but does not itself guarantee reform.
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