Fighting a parallel imported fashion tide

Published: 9:47PM Thursday December 11, 2008

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Tried lately to buy clothes not made in China or elsewhere in Asia? You'd be pretty much out of luck unless it was real high-end top dollar stuff. The flood of cheaper mass-produced garments has taken a toll on our own industry. To compete, many of our own designers are forced to head overseas to both manufacture, and print their own fabrics. But Auckland's University of Technology is fighting back. It's set up a textile and design laboratory that's so high-tech it's even helping out some of our most successful designers, the likes of Karen Walker and Kate Sylvester. Robyn Janes took a look at the machines that are changing the face of fashion.

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