The fashion industry has become central to economy of the world in terms of employment, trade, income, and investment. Networking in fashion industry involves extensive assortment of products, life cycle that spans across a short duration of time with the product, steeping demand, and long supply procedures. Fashion industry has gone through phases of transition over the years.
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Remarkable Contribution of Apparel and Merchandise

Soaring use of electronic mercantilism in retail and wholesale merchandising over the successive years have laid primary contribution to the fashion industry. The apparel and clothing industry are involved into manufacturing dressing products with natural and synthetic fibers such as rayon, Lenin, polyester, wool, and cotton, among others went into manufacturing. Garment industry section covers dresses for children, males, females, brides, grooms, and lingerie.

Supply Chain of Fashion Industry Networking

The supply chain in the fashion industry networking are classified into five segments as raw materials, logistics, clothing manufacturers, fabric plants, garb plants, and consumers and retail shops.

Manufacturing Operations and Associated Share

In the middle of the decade of 2000, the nations from Asia-pacific including Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India, among others showed major participation and involvement in garment manufacturing businesses and were the chief exporters of garments. Apart from these, other leading manufacturers of garments were Italy, Germany, Mexico, and the United States.

Global Trends and Volume of Trade

The domain of clothing manufacturing requires relatively greater amount of human efforts to capital investment. This fact has driven leading clothing manufacturers to make a noticeable shift towards the growing nations while they still succeeded to amass huge money from exportation. This shift is testified to by the demographic data suggesting that production of clothing in industrial nations had dropped down significantly between eighties and 1996. The situation and time period coincided with contrasting rise in production in growing nations. Same trends were apparent in the clothing exportation which grew almost six-fold between eighties and 1997.

Challenges in the Face of Industry

Although fashion industry is soaring high at a swift pace, there exist a few barriers that affect further growth. The increasing demand for clothing fails to be catered with relatively slower rate of production. In order to come to terms with the increasing demand, it calls for the additional production facilities.      

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