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garment industry

NOUN
fashion industry
Synonyms
STRONGEST
apparel industry
WEAK
fashion business rag trade
NOUN
haute couture
Synonyms
WEAK
Seventh Avenue designer fashion fashion design rag trade
NOUN
rag trade
Synonyms
WEAK
Seventh Avenue dressmaking fashion design garment making haute couture tailoring

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After a successful career in the garment industry, he waded into the media business following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

He grew up in a middle-class Jewish home in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to immigrant parents who worked in the garment industry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

David Baltimore was born March 7, 1938, in New York City, the son of a garment industry merchant, Richard Baltimore, and Gertrude Lipschitz-Baltimore.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

She believes Leicester's garment industry will only survive if there is significant investment in new robot technology and a focus on quality.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2024

This was the second great advantage of the garment industry.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell