Nanette Lepore is doing what is right . Doing the next right thing in front of her.
It is obvious, it is right there in front of us.
We just know, it feels right. And it is LOUD.
It is only my opinion but, how is it, that it is an 'artistic personality' or an 'ARTIST,' that actually cares about their country ???
I don't see other many other business types actually caring about the well being of their communities.
I am sure there a few, but they probably have HUGE right brains !
And a nice sized conscience, or at least they can still hear theirs.
Money is nice.....but how high the cost ?
"In a sense, we have a reprieve," said Nanette Lepore, a New York fashion designer who manufactures 85 percent of her clothing line in almost 30 independent factories within a few blocks of her office on West 35th Street. "But we’ll be back in this battle again, if we don’t decide that the garment district is important to the heritage of New York."
High rents are hardly the only problems plaguing the city’s fashion industry. Employment in the apparel trades has been shrinking drastically for decades, as tens of thousands of jobs have moved to China and other low-wage countries. After peaking around 275,000 in the 1950s, the number of apparel manufacturing jobs in New York has steadily declined to around 20,000 today,.........
NYT's article :
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/realestate/commercial/11fashion.html?ex=1235797200&en=4942b579d8009ea6&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=RE-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M081-ROS-0209-PH&WT.mc_ev=click
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