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Inside Australia’s Fashion Brain Drain

The country’s manufacturing capacity is fast disappearing, with only 3 percent of all garments sold in Australia made onshore.
A model walks the runway during the Alemais 2023 runway show at Australia Fashion Week.
A model walks the runway during the Alemais 2023 runway show at Australia Fashion Week. (Alemais)

When he was studying fashion at RMIT in Melbourne, Vlad Kanevsky thought international runway shows looked like a “fever dream.” Now, as a senior designer at Thom Browne in New York, with a decade of experience in the industry, he says: “Things that didn’t seem possible in Australia have become a reality.”

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