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Garment Center Bulletin
By admins | February 4, 2009
In case you haven’t heard….
Fashion Week- Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Council of Fashion Designers of America and IMG Fashion have decided to move New York’s Fashion Week away from Bryant Park. The new larger space will be, Lincoln Center. We will most certainly miss hosting this event in our neighborhood. See how people are reacting to this in our forum.
CPSIA- Yesterday some fellow garment center workers held a protest on 34th street by Macy’s. The protest was over the Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act which will enforce tight testing mandates on childrenswear manufacturers. While many of us at larger companies already had strict internal requirement and intense guidelines from large retailers, small business were caught off guard. For those of you panicking, just remember this is the US government, just because they pass a law next week does not mean they will be enforcing it next week.
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Topics: designers, fashion industry, garment center, production, scoop | 1 Comment » 
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February 6th, 2009 at 12:07 am
I’m so hating on Lincoln Center right now, even though I know it was probably the right thing to do. So glad I’m not in childrens-wear, but no doubt it’ll work out. The flammability issue caused similar problems when it was implemented and the industry survived.