An “Orphan” Creative Industry: Exploring the Institutional Factors Constraining the Canadian Fashion Industry

Brydges, T; Pugh, R

An “Orphan” Creative Industry: Exploring the Institutional Factors Constraining the Canadian Fashion Industry

Brydges, T

Pugh, R

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Publisher:: WILEY
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Growth and Change, 2017, 48, (4), pp. 942-962
Issue Date:: 2017-12-01

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dc.contributor.author	Brydges, T https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8139-005X
dc.contributor.author	Pugh, R
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-28T04:02:43Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-28T04:02:43Z
dc.date.issued	2017-12-01
dc.identifier.citation	Growth and Change, 2017, 48, (4), pp. 942-962
dc.identifier.issn	0017-4815
dc.identifier.issn	1468-2257
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/162816
dc.description.abstract	In recent years, tier-two fashion countries have been making gains in the global fashion industry, with hip young brands, buzz-worthy fashion weeks and export-oriented designers. The Canadian fashion industry, on the other hand, continues to fall behind and instead has experienced recent high-profile closures of leading domestic fashion names. This paper explores why this is the case by considering a wide range of factors from a historical and institutional perspective. We argue that Canadian fashion is facing a number of systemic problems relating to wider institutional and policy weaknesses, rather than a lack of talent and know-how within the entrepreneurs and businesses in the sector. While the fashion industry is indeed global, we argue that it is in fact national and local level factors—political, economic, and cultural—that structure and constrain the Canadian fashion industry for independent designers. Through exploring the experiences of this group of actors—entrepreneurial fashion designers—in this particular context, we not only learn about Canada as an economy but also what is needed in order to develop the fashion industry more broadly. We provide a framework for analysing the range of socio-economic, historical, and political factors at the national level which affect the performance of the fashion sector and the operation of fashion designers as the entrepreneurial actors at the heart of the industry.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	WILEY
dc.relation.ispartof	Growth and Change
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1111/grow.12203
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subject	1205 Urban and Regional Planning, 1402 Applied Economics, 1604 Human Geography
dc.subject.classification	Urban & Regional Planning
dc.title	An “Orphan” Creative Industry: Exploring the Institutional Factors Constraining the Canadian Fashion Industry
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	48
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)/Institute For Sustainable Futures
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dc.date.updated	2022-10-28T04:02:42Z
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Abstract:

In recent years, tier-two fashion countries have been making gains in the global fashion industry, with hip young brands, buzz-worthy fashion weeks and export-oriented designers. The Canadian fashion industry, on the other hand, continues to fall behind and instead has experienced recent high-profile closures of leading domestic fashion names. This paper explores why this is the case by considering a wide range of factors from a historical and institutional perspective. We argue that Canadian fashion is facing a number of systemic problems relating to wider institutional and policy weaknesses, rather than a lack of talent and know-how within the entrepreneurs and businesses in the sector. While the fashion industry is indeed global, we argue that it is in fact national and local level factors—political, economic, and cultural—that structure and constrain the Canadian fashion industry for independent designers. Through exploring the experiences of this group of actors—entrepreneurial fashion designers—in this particular context, we not only learn about Canada as an economy but also what is needed in order to develop the fashion industry more broadly. We provide a framework for analysing the range of socio-economic, historical, and political factors at the national level which affect the performance of the fashion sector and the operation of fashion designers as the entrepreneurial actors at the heart of the industry.

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