Abstract
The fashion industry includes, in term of activity, the manufacture of clothes, footwear and of sweaters, shoes, perfumes and jewels. An industrial company on 10 works in the field of the fashion. Sector was little concentrated, it groups together almost 2000 companies of more than 20 salaried who employ more than 180,000 people and realize a total sales turnover of 29 billion euros, is approximately 5% of the industry. This universe of the fashion recovers a set of branches of industry having in common «the finery" of the person. Know-how, quality and creativity of products are at the origin of the international good name of the French industry. It is a domain where mix prestigious names of the industry of the luxury (sewing, jeweller's shop, perfume shop) and industrial concerns products of which are situated on various segments of the market: of the standard product in the luxury ready-to-wear clothing.
