During a period when the watchword of the fashion industry — and others as well — seems to be "uncertainty" there's is one bastion of strength: export growth in Italian fashion's so-called industrial clusters, which in 2015 grew for the sixth consecutive year posting a 2.5% increase to €33.4 billion and a trade surplus of €19.7 billion.

Of the 42 fashion clusters examined by the Monitor, an annual study of industrial districts by the research department of Intesa Sanpaolo bank, ten of them hit new, all-time highs in exports. In the lead are the jewelry cluster of Valenza — up 30.6% in 2015 from the year before and with a 319% increase between 2005 and 2015 -- and the eyewear center of Belluno (+126% year-on-year and +131% over the past ten years).

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Fonte: Italy24