Can Fashion Sell a New Generation on Trade Jobs?
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Can Fashion Sell a New Generation on Trade Jobs?

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 16, 202628 min
  • Interview
  • Business & money

Behind every luxury handbag, bespoke suit and couture gown lies an intricate value chain powered by skilled artisans. But as master craftspeople retire without successors, fashion faces a growing shortage of skilled workers — US tailoring employment has fallen roughly 30 percent over the last decade. Nordstrom, North America's largest employer of tailors, is funding tailoring programmes at FIT and Seattle Central College with another planned at ASU FIDM. The effort is aimed at rebuilding that pipeline at a moment when skilled trades more broadly are enjoying renewed interest from young people questioning the value of a four-year degree. In...

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Hello and welcome to the Debris from the Business of Fashion where each week we delve into our most popular BOF professional stories with the correspondence who created them. I'm Senior Correspondent Sheena Butler Young. Behind every luxury handbag, bespoke suit and couture gown lies an intricate value chain

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empowered by skilled artisans. Yet as master crafts people retire without successors, fashion is facing a growing shortage of skilled workers. The numbers tell the story.

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Tailoring employment in the US has fallen roughly 30% over the last decade. And Nordstrom, the largest employer of tailors in North America with nearly 1500 alteration specialists

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