As with China in the 1980s, these immigrants brought a flood of cheap labor to New York.
Many of these people were originally engaged in the textile and clothing business in Europe.
Their arrival accelerated the pace at which New York became the center of apparel manufacturing in the United States. New York's famous Garment District was born in this context.
Many of America's most famous designer brands were born in this palm-sized area (about 2.6 square kilometers, from 5th to 9th Avenues in Manhattan; 34th block to 42nd block) : One of the brands most commonly worn by the first lady of the United States is "CAROLINA HERRERA," "OSCAR DE LA RENTA," "Kevin KLEIN," "DONNA Karen. KARAN, "LIZ CLAIBORNE"... This area is home to almost all of the supply chains needed for garment design and production: from accessory suppliers, fabric suppliers, embroidery factories, printing factories, knitting factories, and various garment processing plants.
This small regional aggregation of the production supply chain makes it easy for local designers to find a suitable factory and complete their own design and brand creation.
Because of the relative maturity of the industrial chain, New York designers from the early 20th century, wanted to break the monopoly system of Paris as the only fashion center at that time.
In order to improve their design skills, most of them will fly to Paris to work as interns in fashion houses, and then return to New York to do design in local clothing factories.
There was no such thing as a "designer brand" in America at this time.
In the United States at this time, clothing factories were much more famous than designers.
And the factory does not need the designers' creativity, they just need these designers to imitate or even copy the works of French designers.
As the earliest industrialized country, the U.S. domestic market nurtured the oil tycoon family Rockefeller (Rockfeller), the auto tycoon Ford family (Ford), the financial industry giant Morgan family (Morgan) and so on.
In short, the United States already had a lot of rich people. But the wives and children of these rich people would rather fly to Paris to have French fashion tailored than buy locally made clothes in the United States.
Even in department stores, luxury stores such as BERGDORF GOODMAN and MEIMAN MARCUS are only willing to order from France.
In the field of fashion media, American VOGUE and Women's Wear Daily (Women's Wear Daily) are already world-renowned.
However, none of the local rich, media and shopping malls pay close attention to their own local designers.
The scholar Marlis Schweitzer has even argued that although French designers are famous, it is not the French who support French designers, but the Americans.
