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Working Groups
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Trade and Deindustrialization
The
Apparel Industry Study Group
The Apparel
Industry Study Group is an interdisciplinary study group on the
future of the textile and apparel industry in New York City. It
is based at New School University and is anchored by faculty from
the Parsons School of Design, the Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic
Policy Analysis at the Graduate Faculty, and the Robert J. Milano
School of Urban Management.
The purpose
of the Apparel Industry Study Group is to bring together designers,
marketing experts, economists, geographers, anthropologists, sociologists
and urban planners to study the industry and perhaps to recommend
policies for keeping the industry in New York strong and dynamic.
This interdisciplinary group will come together on a regular basis
in order to further our understanding of the industry's global dynamics,
the linkages among fashion designers, retailers and the pattern
of production sourcing, the importance of international commercial
and immigration policies and the role of organized labor.
The first meeting
was held on Tuesday, March 29th at the Schwartz Center for Economic
Policy Analysis, where Sarah Crean, Executive Director at the Garment
Industry Development Corporation, made a presentation.
The next meeting
will be held on May 19, 2005 at 12:30 pm at 80 Fifth Ave, 5th Floor.
Related Reading
(all downloads are in Adobe PDF format)
Rantisi, N.
(2004) "The
Ascendance of New York Fashion" International Journal
of Urban and Regional Research, 28(1): pp. 86-106.
Griffiths, Ian
(2000) The
Invisible Man in White, Nicola and Griffiths, Ian, The
Fashion Business: Theory, Practice, Image, Oxford: BERG Publishers,
pp. 69-90.
Maramotti,
Luigi (2000) Connecting
Creativity in White, Nicola and Griffiths, Ian, The Fashion
Business: Theory, Practice, Image, Oxford: BERG Publishers,
pp. 91-101.
Skoggard, Ian
(1998) Transnational
Commodity Flows and the Global Phenomenon of the Brand in
Brydon, Anne and Niessen, Sandra, Consuming Fashion: Adorning
the Transnational Body, Oxford: BERG Publishers, pp. 57-70.
If you would
like to get involved, please contact us at cepa@newschool.edu
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