A post shared by British Fashion Council (@britishfashioncouncil) on Jul 16, 2020 at 7:17am PDTIt also predicts that 240,000 of the 890,000 people directly employed by the British fashion industry will lose their jobs.
Add to that the potential indirect job losses through the supply chain and consumer spending, and the figure rises to 350,000 which equates to 1 percent of all UK jobs.If nothing is done to alleviate the strain on the British fashion industry, the BFC believes that an entire generation of creative talent could disappear.
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