From Field to Shelf

When do balloons pose a threat? And what about those UFOs tracked along the Article Circle? These are questions preoccupying Washington...

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...

We live in an age of uncertainty. You know the story: pandemic, supply chain disruption, a war, tensions over Taiwan, and accelerating...

Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, recently paid a visit to Taipei. She was warmly greeted by President Tsai...

It's time for a reality check. There's a lot of hype about the economy, politics, the pandemic, and the war. When so many factors are...

It's an understatement to say that we live in challenging times, particularly when considering how our industry has changed due to the...

So many people have worked tirelessly to establish environmental goals and objectives for our industry. Indeed, when it comes to...

Note: This article was published on February 8, 2022 in just-style.com, a couple of weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine. Report from the...

Note: This article was published last year in sourcingjournal.com, and cotton prices have moderated since then. Even so, inflation...

An agreement negotiated between Washington and Beijing during the Trump Administration calling for increased imports of American goods by...

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...

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...

I'm feeling pretty dumb these days. Help me out. Here’s my quandary: U.S. apparel import prices are falling, and precipitously from some...

Inflation has caused concern for many people in our industry. What's worse is what happens if the economic rebound experienced early this...

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...

It seems that a vaccine for the Covid-19 virus may be available soon. Well, it couldn't come too soon. A year's worth of devastation...

(Co-Authored with Fashion+Sustainability advisor, Thomasine Dolan Dow.) As Americans, we're concerned that the presidential transition...

Oddly enough, when writing this month's column, I originally intended to discuss likely economic recovery scenarios and how those could...

For most of July, I worked closely with one of my clients, Vidalia Mills, to install five automated mask-making machines. During that...

In the famous 1976 movie "Network," a distraught fictional American television news presenter, Howard Beale, had a breakdown on live TV....