After Years of Globalization, It’s Time to Pay the Tab
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Robert Antoshak
- Dec 5, 2022
- 6 min
Is This The End of Globalization For The Apparel Industry?
We've read the headlines. Seen the markets. Experienced changes in everyday life. Stuff costs more or is harder to get. We live in a time...
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Robert Antoshak
- Jun 6, 2022
- 4 min
Is Overpopulation Still a Thing?
It's an understatement to say that we live in challenging times, particularly when considering how our industry has changed due to the...
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Robert Antoshak
- Jun 6, 2022
- 4 min
Is Sustainability in the Fashion Industry a Victim of Collateral Damage?
So many people have worked tirelessly to establish environmental goals and objectives for our industry. Indeed, when it comes to...
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Robert Antoshak
- Mar 14, 2022
- 6 min
When Apparel Supply Chains Fail to Supply
Note: This article was published on February 8, 2022 in just-style.com, a couple of weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine. Report from the...
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Robert Antoshak
- Feb 11, 2022
- 4 min
Will China-U.S. Relations Continue to Deteriorate in 2022?
An agreement negotiated between Washington and Beijing during the Trump Administration calling for increased imports of American goods by...
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Robert Antoshak
- Feb 11, 2022
- 6 min
The Ten Key Trends to Watch for the Apparel Industry in 2022
As I nurse my New Year's Eve hangover, I am preoccupied with two issues. One, when will my head stop hurting? And, two, what's in store...
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Robert Antoshak
- Jan 6, 2022
- 5 min
The World Copped Out at COP26
COP26 was a cop-out, a duck-and-cover excuse to show that countries can address climate change. In reality, the gathering was little more...
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Robert Antoshak
- Dec 6, 2021
- 5 min
What Happens to Fast Fashion if Global Growth Falters?
The success of fast fashion is predicated on growth, and lots of it, a constant churn of products in the stores. It's also a business...
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Robert Antoshak
- Nov 22, 2021
- 5 min
Like It Or Not, Apparel Supply Chains Have Changed
Supply chains. Have you ever heard so much about supply chains? It's all over the media. Name a publication and there's a story about...
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Robert Antoshak
- Sep 13, 2021
- 7 min
Why Can't We Turn Off Consumerism and Fashion?
The fashion industry is multifaceted: manufacturing, sourcing, design, merchandising, and consumerism, to name just a few examples....
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Robert Antoshak
- Jul 18, 2021
- 6 min
The Return of Growth. Sort of.
When I was a kid (a long time ago, in a country far, far away), I was taught that over-population was inevitable. There was some vague...
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Robert Antoshak
- May 24, 2021
- 6 min
A Boat Got Stuck and Other Calamities
A boat blocked the Suez Canal. Global trade ground to a halt. Huh? After all, accidents will happen; that's nothing new. But the Suez...
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Robert Antoshak
- Mar 15, 2021
- 7 min
The Good and Bad of Globalization
So, what do you do when business decisions made more than 30 years ago come back to haunt you? Well, you either acknowledge there's a...
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Robert Antoshak
- Aug 11, 2020
- 8 min
How The Apparel Industry Can Become Exceptional
(Co-Authored with April Kappler, consultant to the cotton and textile supply chain.) Thomas Hobbes, the 17th Century English philosopher,...
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Robert Antoshak
- Jul 10, 2020
- 7 min
Selling Garments Should Never Be The Same
We live in such difficult times. It's like the world has been turned upside down. What worked before is now failing. Darkness has...
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Robert Antoshak
- May 15, 2020
- 8 min
The Apparel Industry Is About To Change
Two recent articles left me wondering about where our world, let alone our industry, will end up once the Covid-19 pandemic eases. The...
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Robert Antoshak
- May 1, 2020
- 6 min
Does Covid-19 Mark the End of Globalization?
Are we witnessing the end of globalization? The simple answer is no. But, there is a more nuanced answer that I'd like to suggest:...
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Robert Antoshak
- Apr 20, 2020
- 7 min
The Growth Conundrum: How Does Slowing Global Economic Growth Affect Apparel?
Allow me to begin this column with an apology: I’m now going to sound like an economics wonk. Yikes. Economics. Growth rates, GDP, trade...
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Robert Antoshak
- Dec 22, 2019
- 5 min
Sustainability is Fast- Fashion's Achilles Heel
Have you ever wondered why so many companies in our supply chains like to talk about how much water they've saved or how little energy...
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