[ox-en] Open-Source Fashion?
- From: Chris Croome <chris croome.net>
- Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 02:10:36 +0100
Hi
I just came across this on NY IMC:
Open-Source Fashion
No Sweat claims to be the "world's first open-source
apparel manufacturer."
http://www.nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=67688
However if you look at their web site this isn't what we
might expect:
The apparel industry has traditionally operated on a
closed source model, source here meaning clothing
source, the actual (almost always outsourced) site of
production. You hid your source from competitors
because you didn't want them flocking to your favorite
cut-rate factories...
We hereby announce a break with all that. We are the
first-- we think, the first of many -- apparel maker to
go open source. We will tell you about our sources,
highlight them, show them off. The workers who make our
clothes will have living wages and decent working
conditions; they will have unions. Will that lead our
competition to the same shops? Excellent. We want our
sources to thrive. That's the whole point...
http://nosweatapparel.com/sources/
Ironically if they did allow people who buy their clothing
access to the digital designs of the clothing and allowed
them to use these designs it could result in a
non-unionised manafacturer producing the same designs and
selling them for less...
Chris
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