DESIGN TALENT IN DEVELOPED WORLD FALLING SHORT IN COPING WITH THE DEMANDS OF INTERNATIONAL OUTSOURCING
June 1st, 2008
BY LEE ADENDORFF, in Lucca, Italy
OF the 3,000 students who will graduate from fashion school this year in the UK, only 500 will find jobs in the clothing and textile sector. They may be highly creative and excellent designers, but this is not always what the industry wants: many fashion producers say British graduates are ill-prepared to compete and adapt to a workplace characterised by overseas manufacturing bases, highly computerised environments and complex logistical production scenarios. It is a problem echoed in other rich country homes of big textile and ...
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