A Europe-wide strategy for fashion and luxury

The IFM was closely involved with the European Commission's action

plan for a Europe-wide strategy for the fashion and luxury industries

going forward (the document was presented in London on Tuesday December

3rd 2013 by Antonio Tajani, European Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship and Vice-President of the Commission).

The action plan was put together in tandem with Euratex (European Textile and Clothing Confederation), ECCIA (European Cultural and Creative Industries Alliance), and other important players in fashion and the high-end industries (companies and federations), and is the result of a wide-ranging consultation with all those involved and contained a series of initiatives to reinforce the competiveness of these industries..

"The most important objective is to create an environment in which companies operating in the various industrial value chains are able to operate in the right conditions so as to be able to successfully compete in a globalized world and therefore encouraged to maintain investments and re-invest in Europe. Today's roadmap for future initiatives is an important step in recognising the important contribution our industries are making to Europe's prosperity"
(Alberto Paccanelli, President of Euratex).