Female Entrepreneurship in the African Fashion Industry: A Review of Its Determinants and Characteristics

Author(s):  
Hashim Sabo Bello
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Vanoni ◽  
Alfonso Omaña

The fashion industry in Colombia is one of the sectors who are showing an exponential grow in the last times with profits for more than 20.2 billion of colombian pesos, approximately 1.3 million of units sold. Under those perspective, this article will focus on how the female enterprises in the fashion system are developing in recent years with examples from highlights cases where the women have an important role as entrepreneur instead in covid times. For this study, the authors made a selection of three companies from the Colombian fashion system led by women. As a result, it was possible identify that those organizations establish the leader as a collaborator and an important part of a business, as well, justified in his/her works in the way to create and share an innovative value necessary to keep the company into the high standards of competitiveness in local and international market.


Author(s):  
Vike Martina Plock

This chapter analyzes the role of fashion as a discursive force in Rosamond Lehmann’s 1932 coming-of-age novel Invitation to the Waltz. Reading the novel alongside such fashion magazines as Vogue, it demonstrates Lehmann’s awareness that 1920s fashion, in spite of its carefully stylized public image as harbinger of originality, emphasized the importance of following preconceived (dress) patterns in the successful construction of modern feminine types. Invitation to the Waltz, it argues, opposes the production of patterned types and celebrates difference and disobedience in its stead. At the same time, the novel’s formal appearance is nonetheless dependent on the very same tenets it criticizes. On closer scrutiny, it is seen to reveal its resemblance to Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (1927). A tension between imitation and originality determines sartorial fashion choices. This chapter shows that female authorship in the inter-war period was subjected to the same market forces that controlled and sustained the organization of the fashion industry.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 660-665
Author(s):  
Chi Sheh ◽  
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Peng Chan ◽  
Wen Jun Sim ◽  
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Fast fashion is becoming more and more popular nowadays and this industry is growing rapidly. In order to supply to the big demand of fast fashion clothing, company will need to increase the production of the clothing in shorter time frame. Besides that, to out beat the competitor, company will provide more choices of clothing in cheaper price to the customers. By practicing these actions to increase the business profits, company is behaving unethical to the manufacturer of the cloth. Most consumers are not aware of these ethical issues. This paper is will used and tested the conceptual model of fast fashion business ethics based on literature reviews. The finding from this paper will manifest the “real cost” of a cheap and branded fast fashion clothing and will be supported by real life event that happened. However, after realizing the problems, some company did make some changes and the solutions are stated in the paper as well.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 748-752
Author(s):  
Paula Gárgoles ◽  
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Ružica Brečić ◽  
Alica Grilec

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