Italian Fashion, Chinese Labor

“When the first Chinese, their suitcases filled with cash, arrived in the early 1990s and leased their factories, the Italians laughed at them. But now that their numbers have quadrupled and they own a quarter of the city’s textile businesses, where they make ‘Made in Italy’ fashion at ‘Made in China’ prices – often illegally – the newspapers are full of op-ed pieces about the “yellow invasion,” low-wage competition and the Chinese mafia.”