COMMENT: Manufacturing moves from Line to Lean to Live
Author: just-style.com | 16 February 2011
Efforts by the global garment export industry to achieve greater efficiency and higher productivity have limited designers to the lowest level of design, workers to producing the simplest garments, and even customers must make do with what they are given. But it doesn't have to be like this, says David Birnbaum, with new technologies providing a platform were talented designers can show their wares directly to the consumer.
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