Fashion Desigers Give Back

Circa night club hosted the final L’Oreal Fashion Week party, and it featured Paul Budnit’z Kidrobot runway presentation and a display of all the Canadian Designer Munny’s in the Kidrobot display room.

The Kidrobot is a popular, vinyl toy that allows individuals to draw and decorate as they see fit.

What Circa’s Project Munny is, is that had a variety of Canadian fashion designers including favourites from this years L’Oreal Fashoin Week event decorate and design their own little Munny.

Once they have decorated their own Munny’s according to their own style, Circa put these Munny’s on eBay auction off. The proceeds will be going to War Child Canada.

Although it may not be clothes they are designing to be auctioned off, it still shows that Canadian fashion designers are very caring and will anything to support charitable causes. It shows that Canadian designers not only focus on their clothes and runway shows, it also illustrates how they help charities with their designing abilities. Acts such as these will generate more buzz around the Canadian fashion/apparel cluster, because it demonstrates to international fashion professional how much they are willing to give back to their communities.

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Industry Cluster in New York – Fashion & Apparel

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

The heart of the fashion industry is unquestionably in New York. The world’s most recognizable brands originate from New York based headquarter offices and design studios. New York is also a major producer of apparel products having produced over $7.8 billion in manufactured products in 2001. New York has unique access to competitive production facilities, specialized NYC niche manufacturers, innovative young designers and the world’s foremost retail market. Over 8,000 apparel & fashion companies employ over 98,000 people in New York State including: 

POLO	Ralph Lauren	Hickey Freeman
Brooks Brothers	Jones New York	Kenneth Cole
Liz Claiborne	Ann Taylor	Phillips Van-Heusen
Nautica	Tommy Hilfiger

New York is also home to many of the most respected foreign apparel firms’ US operations including:

Prada

LVMH

Chanel

Christian Dior

New York State has the ideal workforce and operating environment that allows these companies to thrive here. New York State hosts corporate headquarters, both cut & sew and knitwear production facilities, design studios and sales & marketing operations. 

Summary

•  Ten percent of national employment in Fashion, Apparel and Textiles is in New York State
• Statewide, the Fashion cluster employed 122,000 people in 2001 at 9,618 establishments.
• New York City’s Fashion, Apparel and Textiles employment is almost three times as much as would be expected from national level employment patterns. Nearly half of New York City’s employment in the Fashion, Apparel and Textiles employment is in apparel manufacturing. About one third is in apparel wholesaling.
• The Mohawk Valley also has significantly more employment than would be expected from its population, with about 3,500 workers in the Fashion, Apparel and Textiles industry
• Businesses in the Fashion, Apparel and Textiles industry cluster employed 122,000 people in New York State in 2001. Firms in the apparel manufacturing sub-cluster employed the largest number of New Yorkers, with 54,078 workers. Apparel wholesalers were the second largest segment, with 36,480 employees. New York had nearly 24% of national employment in apparel wholesaling. The state had more than 20% of employment in jewelry manufacturing, and more than 12% of national employment in apparel manufacturing

 

 

To read more about New York’s Fashion & Apparel Cluster visit; http://www.nylovesbiz.com. 

 

Cheers,

Caroline K