Garment workshops often operate from leased premises and lack fixed assets to provide collateral for loans, she added.
While Campania is dominated by the Camorra, the notoriously violent organized crime network, the authorities here say counterfeiting is actually a peripheral line for the gangsters, who prefer to focus on more lucrative businesses like toxic waste dumping, drug trafficking and illegal garment workshops.
In the back room, below the cramped attic garment-trade workshop, a whole family seems to be existing.
While Leicester's giant red brick spinning mills might have fallen silent, they have been replaced by the noise of thousands sewing machines whirring across a network of small garment factories and workshops that criss-cross the city.
The team is always looking for new craftsmen and techniques to develop new garments in the main workshop on the outskirts of Jaipur.
Mountain Khakis' Taylor said that of the 171 test garments sent to the workshop last month, 99% were successfully cleaned or repaired.
Yet when Catherine Delondre, the head of the atelier, saw the garments emerging from the workshop, "we thought, this is real couture".
It upheld a complaint from the retailer about the veracity of a section of the documentary showing children supposedly working on Primark garments in a Bangalore workshop.
Until last year, Sjoerd Didden, a theatrical wig maker, and his partner, Ghislaine van de Kamp, a former theater designer, raised their two boys in an open-plan loft on the third floor of Didden's wig workshop, a former garment factory in central Rotterdam.
He produces 500 prêt-a-porter garments each year from his Madrid workshop using simple fabrics like wool, cashmere and cotton.
