Thousands of jobs are thought to have been misplaced, and lots of factories have closed in a metropolis that after boasted that it "clothed the world".
The collapse has been partly triggered by revelations concerning the poor remedy of the primarily feminine workforce within the textile and vogue sector.
But additionally the arrival of competitors from Chinese firms like Shein and Temu – and a commerce take care of India – has now added to the existential disaster going through each the style business in Leicester, and throughout the UK.
Sky’s Ed Conway investigated.
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