Luxury Accessories Silk market, upstream vertical integration, supply-chain, Made-in marketing

The current macroeconomic environment presents a strong global growth in the luxury market in general and specially in the accessories segment (ties, shawls, scarves) due to the demand from emerging countries.
French Groups (owners/holders of the main brands) play a key role. They are amongst the leaders in the sector due to the customers' perception value.
The European productive outlook related to these Luxury Groups, in the manufacturing and industrial sectors, is divided between a few Italian suppliers who organized themselves in order to offer a complete service to these Groups.
In France, there is only one organized structure of the chain (controlled by Hermes/HTH). All the other French suppliers, who are positioned as ‘third’ tier suppliers, only manage their know-how.
In order to improve their quality, creativity, confidentiality, timeliness and response to changes, some other Luxury Groups can be potentially inspired by the Hermes/HTH approach. This means combining a productive chain with a strong partnership, guided towards the upstream chain, with implications on the overall upstream chain.
Nowadays, the market offers the possibility of building an aggregated supply-chain for the manufacturing of textile accessories, controlling investments, while controlling the upstream processes of the value chain.
The purpose of the current study is to illustrate the possibilities of such a work based on the current competencies and experiences of the Luxury sector.