Fashion design for the emerging creative economy of Sri Lanka

For many years, Sri Lanka’s textiles and apparel (T&A) industry practices were dependent on labour intensive manufacturing for export orders. In the late 1990’s, both government and private industry sectors identified that for Sri Lanka’s T&

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