The fashion industry is an industry that is typically devoted to the designing, production and sales of fabrics (clothes). It is considered to be a multi-billion dollar global industry.

Basically, the fashion industry comprises of four (4) main levels;

1. Primary level: it is the stage where fibers such as wool, cotton, silk, flax for making textile fabrics are processed. Also it involves other processes such as yarn and fabric production such as spinning, throwing, knitting, felting, weaving, printing, dyeing etc.

2. Secondary level: it is the stage that deals with the firms involved in the manufacturing of apparels and clothing lines.

3. Retail level: it is the stage that deals with the process of distributing the manufactured apparels through departmental stores, boutiques, etc.

4. Auxiliary level: this deals primarily with the process of writing and promoting the overall fashion industry levels. It comprises of fashion media, promotion agency, trade organization etc that works for the dissemination of information across the fashion industry and its customers.

<em>Hence, a magazine editor is on the auxiliary level of the fashion industry.</em>

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