标题: European Fashion [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 6-26-2013 15:57 标题: European Fashion (1) "USA SNAPSHOT
World's largest exporters of clothing
In 2011, value in billions
China $153.8
Italy $23.3
Bangladesh $19.9
Germany $19.6
India $14.4
Source WTO Secretariat
ANNE R CAREY AND PAUL TRAP, USA TODAY"
Note:
(a) The bar chart appears in left lower corner of page A1 of USA Today, June 26, 2013.
(b) While I have never heard of it, Germany turns out to be a value--as opposed to volume (such as China, Bangladesh and India)--exporter like Italy.
Sarah Moroz, Visiting the Source | A Rare Look Inside the Atelier of Louis Vuitton. New York Times T Magazine, June 20, 2013.
Note:
(a) "Inspired by the style of Gustave Eiffel, it has an airy architecture articulated by steel beams, and though it was completely renovated and expanded in 2005, it retains its original facade and configuration."
(i) Gustave Eiffel (1932-1923; French)
(ii) Louis Vuitton atelier (original, 1959):
(b) Les Journées Particulières is published by LVMH.
French_English dictionary:
(i) journée (noun feminine): "day"
(ii) particulière (adj): "particular" (eg, sans raison particulière: "with no particular reason"; but a business term, disposition particulière, means "special provision")
(c) "Next, the signature Louis Vuitton 'tumbler lock' is put in place."
Louis Vuitton. Voguepedia, undated http://www.vogue.com/voguepedia/Louis_Vuitton
("1890 Georges Vuitton invents—and patents—the unpickable tumbler lock. Each has a personalized serial number, allowing one key to fit in many pieces owned by the same customer. Several years later, he will take out a newspaper ad challenging the magician Harry Houdini to try to escape from Vuitton’s secure luggage")作者: choi 时间: 6-26-2013 15:57
(3) Italian fashion | Dropped Stitches; A lack of skilled workers could kill one of Italy’s manufacturing successes. Economist, June 22, 2013 http://www.economist.com/news/bu ... es-dropped-stitches
("Around 86,000 jobs, mostly low-skilled, have been lost in Italy’s textiles and clothing businesses since 2006, and many jobs in shoemaking have also gone, as work has moved to lower-cost countries. This may have given young Italians the impression that there is no longer any secure employment to be had in these industries. However, the shortage of craftspeople is so widespread that some firms have taken to poaching from competitors, much as football clubs try to lure the best players from rival teams"