Social currency and where the creative cultural crossovers occur among China’s youth can provide a profound lesson in what works in reaching generationally tech-savvy youth, including how North American brands can tap into the world’s largest youth culture market.
Los Angeles has become the new hotspot for textiles and manufacturing and not just because American Apparel is here and has done an amazing job of illustrating the benefits of vertically integrated manufacturing, or that several top denim sources and manufacturers still reign supreme in the garment district, but word-up is that Urban Expositions out of Atlanta, which does the massive show in Miami called Material World, plans to start a Material World in LA in 2009.