Transforming Clothing Production Into A Demand-Driven, Knowledge-Based, High-Tech Industry: The Leapfrog Paradigm

Recent trends in the fashion market (including an impressive increase in the number of new collections, product assortments and variants, and the emerging mass-customization model) dictate the need for a new approach. "Transforming Clothing Production into a Demand-Driven, Knowledge-Based, High-Tech Industry" discusses the ramifications of such an approach, which must lead to a drastic shortening of the whole cycle from conception to production and retail, as well as a shift from a labor-intensive to a technology- and knowledge-intensive clothing manufacturing industry. "Transforming Clothing Production into a Demand-Driven, Knowledge-Based, High-Tech Industry" is a collection of short papers from prominent researchers involved with the LEAPFROG (Leadership for European Apparel Production From Research along Original Guidelines) initiative. LEAPFROG proposes a revolutionary industrial paradigm based on research results in scientific-technological fields. 9781447157670 1447157672 0 Technology & Engineering NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i8HerQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Lutz Walter, George-Alexander Kartsounis, Stefano Carosio
• • Publisher: Springer
• • Publication Date: Nov 14, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 231 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1447157672
• • ISBN-13: 9781447157670