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...world's cameras and one-third of all TVs. In 2004, imports from China rose by almost 26% to $A17.9 billion, almost all of it manufactured goods (such as clothing, computers, toys and sporting goods, telecommunications equipment and furniture). Last year, Australia exported to China a mountain of wool and cotton. Ships carrying a tiny fraction of what China's clothing factories can produce brought back an even bigger mountain of clothing, much of it bearing the labels of Australian and overseas fashion houses...
...important is it to have made in australia stamped on a product?" says Campbell, an energetic figure amid the dourness of secondary industry. "A dyed-in-the-wool manufacturer will take that idea to their grave. But if you have a good product at the right price, supported by warranty and after-sales service, that argument doesn't hold water." However, China does present a significant new challenge for Campbell when it comes to Victa, which also benefits from cheaper component costs for its lawnmowers. The company has traditionally held about 50% of local sales. But in the past year...
...designers behind some of the country's hottest young labels may call Australia home, but all share Asian roots and pay homage to them in distinctively Eastern designs. The new Asian wave in Australian clothing includes: BOWIE (bowie.com.au): If Bowie Wong's elaborate creations in satin and fine wool strike you as theatrical, that's no coincidence. He was born in Hong Kong to an opera singer mother, and studied costume design in Canada. Wong also picked up a design degree in Japan and, displaying a prodigious appetite for academia, returned to his birthplace to earn another degree, this time...
...BOWIE (bowie.com.au): If Bowie Wong's elaborate creations in satin and fine wool strike you as theatrical, that's no coincidence. He was born in Hong Kong to an opera singer mother, and studied costume design in Canada. Wong also picked up a design degree in Japan and, displaying a prodigious appetite for academia, returned to his birthplace to earn another degree, this time in drama. Wong emigrated to Australia in 1997, enrolling in a fashion design course at an East Sydney college. But this time, further studies were superfluous-his teacher thought him so talented (and over-qualified) that...
...p.m.Corker, hanging out by the trash bins, pulls on his wool beanie. A platinum blonde in a too-tight blue t-shirt leans over the trash bins to whisper in Corker?...