ABSTRACT
The United Nations (UN) Environmental Programme has envisaged the fashion industry, which constitutes textile and apparel manufacture and production, as the second largest industry on a global scale that is valued at $1.44 trillion (Boone 2012). This diverse and complex industry incorporates high volume and extensive technological advances along with handicraft and cottage industries. The manufacture and supply chain of the fashion industry spreads far and wide in search of new concepts for design development and the production and conversion of textile materials to apparels or end products for consumer use (Boone 2012).
