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Because data on the fashion industry typically are reported for national economies and expressed in terms of the industry’s many separate sectors, aggregate figures for world production of textiles and clothing are difficult to obtain. However, by any measure, the industry inarguably accounts for a significant share of world economic output. Fashion industry, multibillion-dollar global enterprise devoted to the business of making and selling clothes. Some observers distinguish between the fashion industry (which makes “high fashion”) and the apparel industry (which makes ordinary clothes or “mass fashion”), but by the 1970s the boundaries between them had blurred. Fashion is best defined simply as the style or styles of clothing and accessories worn at any given time by groups of people.

Ultimately, weak business confidence reduces the potential for economic growth. We all know we could perform better, grow the business, plan for the future - if we had more time. Business resources, including customer relations, market share, supplier relations, manufacturing and distribution processes, technology and reputation, all of which give the company a position in its industry and market. Personnel resources, relating to numbers, depth, and quality of people, particularly at the management and staff levels.

Finally, business resources are the stuff of which success is made; they involve building market share, customer relations, solid vendor sources, and a technological base, and are very important in the early stages. In later stages the loss of a major customer, supplier, or technical source is more easily compensated for. Thus, the relative importance of this factor is shown to be declining. Each evolutionary phase is characterized by a particular managerial style and each revolutionary period by a dominant management problem faced by the company. In the Success-Growth substage, the owner consolidates the company and marshals resources for growth.

The explicit use of fashion as a form of activism, is usually referred to as "fashion activism." The fashion industry has been the subject of numerous films and television shows, including the reality show Project Runway and the drama series Ugly Betty. Specific fashion brands have been featured in film, not only as product placement opportunities, but as bespoke items that have subsequently led to trends in fashion.

Considering a more generic perspective of technology as ethology of active environmental conditioning and control, we can also refer to animal examples such as beavers and their dams, or bees and their honeycombs. The notion of appropriate technology was developed in the 20th century by thinkers such as E.F. Schumacher and Jacques Ellul to describe situations where it was not desirable to use very new technologies or those that required access to some centralized infrastructure or parts or skills imported from elsewhere. On the somewhat skeptical side are certain philosophers like Herbert Marcuse and John Zerzan, who believe that technological societies are inherently flawed.

For their in-house and proprietary brands, they've shortened design and production times to better compete in the market. Fast fashion is made possible by innovations in supply chain management among fashion retailers. Its goal is to quickly produce cost-efficient articles of clothing in response to fast-shifting consumer demands. While the garments are often carelessly made, they're not intended to be worn for years, or even multiple times. But that began to change in the late 1990s, as shopping became a form of entertainment and discretionary spending on clothing increased.

China is an interesting market for fashion retail as Chinese consumers' motivation to shop for fashion items are unique from Western Audiences. Demographics have limited association with shopping motivation, with occupation, income and education level having no impact; unlike in Western Countries. Chinese high-street shoppers prefer adventure and social shopping, while online shoppers are motivated by idea shopping.