The term 'fast fashion' might conjure up factories in low-cost countries churning out 100’s of product lines to customers on the other side of world, only for the items to be worn once and destined for landfill; but the phrase increasingly refers to the acceleration and compression of the process from design to consumer.
With this in mind, The Manufacturer explores whether fast fashion represents the future for British textile manufacturing? 34,000 people are currently directly employed in the manufacture of clothing in the UK, with a further 5,000 employed in the manufacture of footwear. Less than half a century ago, clothing manufacture in the…
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