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Design and Buying CentersDesign and Buying Centers
Global Impact of FashionGlobal Impact of Fashion
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Chapter Objectives
Describe a fashion design center.Define a buying center.Explain how design and buying centers impact local economies.Identify the most important design centers.Explain the importance of global sourcing in the fashion industry.Describe how cultural influences affect mainstream fashion.
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What Is a Design Center?
A thriving design center can make a city important in the fashion world.
design center a district in a city where fashion design and production firms are clustered together
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fashion week periods during each year when fashion designers present new designs or collections
Design centers host important fashion shows during fashion weeks.
Olympus Fashion Week
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International Design Centers
Major design centers include:
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Paris
New York
Milan
London
Tokyo
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International Design Centers
Since the 1700s, the city of Paris has been synonymous with haute couture and has been the home to couturiers.
haute couture French term for high fashion, which is expensive, trend-setting, custom-made apparel
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couturiers professional fashion designers, involved in designing, making, and selling high fashion
Coco Chanel and Yves St. Laurent are examples of couturiers.
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Designers in Milan concentrate primarily on ready-to-wear garments.
Italian fashion is known for its beautiful fabrics and sophisticated prints.
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New York City is considered to be the center of U.S. fashion.
Almost two-thirds of U.S fashion manufacturing is located in New York.
New York designers present their creations during designated fashion weeks.
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U.S. Design Centers
Important design centers in the U.S. include:
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New York City, New York
Los Angeles, California
Dallas, Texas
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What Is a Buying Center?
Buying centers are concentrated in geographic areas where manufacturers promote their newest lines or a group of styles and designs.
buying centers a central district in a city where fashion businesses sell products to retail buyers
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What Is a Buying Center?
The Importance of Buying Centers
Out-of-town apparelbuyers generate millionsof dollars for the localeconomy.
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U.S. Buying Centers
The apparel industry designates particular market weeks to present different components of fashion products.
market weeks the major times scheduled by fashion producers to show fashions to buyers
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U.S. Buying Centers
A larger regional center may have several building clusters, or marts.
mart a building that houses thousands of showrooms for a specific merchandise category
Let’s check out the mart!http://www.merchandisemart.com/mmart/apparelcenter.html
http://www.merchandisemart.com/chicagocollective/
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Different marts may be devoted to specific apparel or accessory groups.
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How Fashion Travels
GlobalizationNeed to reduce costs
Time-to-market concerns
Product lead times+ + +
More complexsourcing and production strategies=
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Global Sourcing and Production
To reduce costs and maximize profits, many textile and apparel manufactures have begun global sourcing.
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global sourcing the identifying and negotiating of supply chains in numerous world locations
Supply companies that move away from their own manufacturing retain control over the sourcing cycle.
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Culture and Fashion
The influence of culture or ethnicity cycles in and out of fashion.
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culture the system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts attributed to members of a specific society
Some ethnic styles become classic, or standard.
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