The Evening View on
Global Fashion
Friday 9th February 2007 Volume 1, Issue 1
By Rajesh Narang
Global Fashion: Who is the Victim?
A typical 14 year old in the U.K. might be wearing an outfit costing £60 in total. What they don’t realize is how that outfit kits them all out in geography.
Global fashion is when different parts of the clothing are being made in different countries because it is cheap. This encourages countries to interact.
Your outfit, probably links the world together. Take jeans for e.g. the zip of your jeans are made in Japan, Brass rivets and buttons are made from Australian zinc and Namibian copper, the jeans are made from cotton grown in Benin, the denim is woven and dyed in Italy, sewn in Tunisia, and then jeans are stone-washed using pumice from an inactive volcano in Turkey before being sold all over the world. This is called interdependence. The clothes are manufactured in LEDCs, but the company’s headquarters are likely to be in U.S.A., which is a MEDC.