The Horse 2020/21

Hello everyone

We just finished our survey about cheap and sustainable clothes and would appreciate it if you could fill it out. Here is the link to our survey: Survey Textiles

Thank you very much for participating.

Sandrine

Livia and I had the interview with Miss Welti last week on friday 21th of may 2021 at 17.00 o'clock. It went really well and Miss Welti was very friendly and communicative. She told us a lot of information we didn't know before. She knows everything about her store from the production to the selling and she is very proud of it. The next post will be the information we got from the interview.

Livia and I got in contact with the shop "feel better than good" and we got to arrange an appointment for an interview with Miss Welti. She was very kind and friendly and we are looking forward for a good interview. We are so thankful that she is going to take some time for us and our project.

The appointment will take place on friday, 21th of may 2021 at 17.00 o'clock.

For the interview we are going to revise our questions and try to add some more.

Otherwise we have started to write our documentation and did some research.

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TEXTILE INDUSTRY

The Textile Industry is primarily concerned with the design, production and distribution of yarn, cloth and clothing. The raw material may be natural or synthetic using products of the chemical industry.

INTRODUCTION - INDIAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY

The Indian Textile Industry is one of the largest in the world with a large unmatched raw material base and manufacturing strength across the value chain. The industry includes extreme variety of both hand-spun and hand woven textile sectors and the capital-intensive sophisticated mills sector. The decentralized power looms / hosiery and knitting sector forms the largest component in the textiles sector. The formulation of policy, planning, development export promotion and regulation of the textile industry in India is administered under Ministry of Textiles, Government of India.

The Indian Textile Industry is considered among one of the leading textile industries in the world. It is divided into three segments, namely, cotton, synthetic and other textiles such as jute, wool and silk. Apart from providing the basic necessities in the life of Indian people, it plays a significant role in the country's economic growth.

Either directly or indirectly, it has been estimated that one of every six households in the country depends on the Indian Textile Industry for its livelihood. The strong roots of production of cotton yarns and ample skilled and unskilled workers and good export potential are the major characteristics of the Indian Textile Industry. This is a traditional, rich and well-established industry, enjoying considerable demand in the domestic as well as global markets.

The Textile Industry in India traditionally, after agriculture, is the only industry that has generated huge employment for both skilled and unskilled labor. The Textile Industry continues to be the second largest employment generating sector in India. It offers direct employment to over 35 million in the country. According to the Ministry of Textiles, the share of textiles in total exports during April-July 2010 was 11.04%. During 2009-2010, the Indian Textile Industry was pegged at US$ 55 billion, 64% of which services domestic demand. In 2010, there were 2500 textile weaving factories and 4135 textile finishing factories in all of India.

According to AT Kearney's 'Retail Apparel Index', India was ranked as the fourth most promising market for apparel retailers in 2009.

India is first in global jute production and shares 63% of the global textile and garment market. India is second in global textile manufacturing and also second in silk and cotton production. 100% FDI is allowed via automatic route in textile sector. Rieter, Trutzschler, Saurer, Soktas, Zambiati, Bilsar, Monti, CMT, E-land, Nisshinbo, Marks & Spencer, Zara, Promod, Bennetton, and Levi's are some of the foreign textile companies invested or working in India.  

The future of the Indian Textile Industry looks promising, buoyed by strong domestic consumption as well as export demand. With consumerism and disposable income on the rise, the retail sector has experienced a rapid growth in the past decade with the entry of several international players. High economic growth has resulted in higher disposable income. This has led to rise in demand for products creating a huge domestic market.

This's just a beginning .......

Looking forward to your comments.......

" Coming together is a beginning.......Keeping together is progress.......Working together is Success!! "

Team - Neethu.N.S. , Kashinath.U.S. , Isaac Lucious James & Sidharth.P.Nair 

Thank you!

We did already a brainstorming about the interview questions we want to ask some clothing stores here in Switzerland. Now we did some changes and added some more:

• What is your opinion about cheap clothes? (different opinions)
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of sustainable clothes in your opinion? (different opinions)
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of cheap clothes in your opinion? (different opinions)
• What is the meaning of your brand? (to get to know the store)
• When did you decide to create your own clothing store? (what was the main reason the store opened, what were the ideas)
• What do you think is the difference between your store to other clothing stores? / What is your opinion in general about the clothing stores in Switzerland? (different opinions)
• Where do you produce the clothes from your store? (it's interesting to see if the store owners are interested in where the clothes are produced)
• Do you know how the clothes of your store are produced? (it shows if the workers are interested in how the clothes are produced)
• What do you think about child labor? (it's interesting to see if some people are still thinkin about)
• Do you think child labor is still used today? (different opinions)
• Do you know which means of transport are used to ship the produced clothes or the material to Switzerland? (is it sustainable or not)
• Is your opinion about clothes still the same you've had in the past or was your opinion completely different? (it's interesting to see if the sustainable lifestyle was also in the past important)
• What do you think about green lifestyle? (different opinions)
• What would you recommend the clothing stores, which don't sell sustainable clothes to change because of the environment? (to get some tips)

Livia and I are collaborating with two teams from the Basque Country:

Team 1
- Ane and Ibai

Team 2
- Izar and Roman

With both teams we are communicate per Whatsapp. So far it has worked out very well. We update each other as soon as we did something for our project.

Last week we contacted some clothing stores in Switzerland and asked them if we could do an interview and if they could answer some of our questions. This is the update so far (until 22th of April 2021):

• Tally Weijl
  We didn't get an answer yet.
• H&M
  We didn't get an answer yet.
• New Yorker
  We didn't get an answer yet.
• C&A
  We didn't get an answer yet.
• Zebra
  We didn't get an answer yet.
• Chicorée
  We got an answer. But unfortunately they said that they could not help us and do an interview with us.
• Brandy Melville
  We didn't get an answer yet.
• Dosenbach
  We didn't get an answer yet.
• Walder Schuhe
  We got an answer. They told us that they could not help us with our project because they don't have a production by themself. They also don't produce their shoes in countries abroad.

We are still waiting for some positive responses but it could be that we will not get them.

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Today we contacted some clothing stores in Switzerland and asked if they could answer some questions about our project. We contacted the following stores:

• Tally Weijl
• H&M
• New Yorker
• C&A
• Zebra
• Chicorée
• Brandy Melville
• Dosenbach
• Walder Schuhe

Now we are waiting for their response.

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What we have accomplished so far (until 8th April 2021)

• We have created a video pitch (Post: Video Pitch)
• We got in contact with our collaboration teams from the Basque Country and presented our project idea to them and what information need from them. They responded and told us they will look for the information we need as soon as they are back in school (they have holidays until 12th of april)
• We prepared the questions for the interview we would like to do with a swiss clothing store and posted it on the horse
• We started to think about some questions to put in our survey
  
  

What is our next step until 15th April 2021

• Get in contact with a swiss clothing store and ask for an interview
• Do a brainstorm of searching questions for our survey

These are the questions we are going to ask the workers of a clothing store here in Switzerland.

1. Where do the the clothes you sell come from? (it would be interesting to know where they got their clothes from)
2. Where are they produced?
3. Do you know how the clothes are produced? Is child labor included? (it's interesting to know if child labor is still used)
4. What is your opinion about child labor? (every person has an other opinion, we are interested to see the differences)
5. Do you know which means of transport are used to ship the clothes to Switzerland? (think about the environment, is it sustainable)
6. Is is important for you to sell sustainable clothes or do you prefer as cheap as possible? (individual opinions of clothing stores in Switzerland)
7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of cheap clothes in your opinion? (individual opinions of clothing stores in Switzerland)
8. What are the advantages and disadvantages of sustainable clothes in your opinion? (individual opinions of clothing stores in Switzerland)
9. What do you think about green lifestyle? (to see if they are thinking about a green lifestyle)

Livia and Sandrine

First we start to think about the whole project and how we will get the information we need. We will do the research after we collaborated with our collaboration teams. We think it would be much easier to see how much information we will get from our collaboration teams so we know which information we have to search by ourself in the internet and outside in maybe an interview or something and add to our project.

Some links we found where we think would be helpful:

• Wichtige Herkunftsländer für Bekleidungsimporte in die Schweiz 2019 (de.statista.com)
• Import von Textilien, Bekleidung und Schuhen in die Schweiz in den Jahren 2000 bis 2019 (de.statista.com)

We didn't find many links we could use because there aren't many websites which are helpful for the main content of our topic.

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