From Field to Shelf

An article authored by Laura Husband on just-style recently about artificial intelligence (AI) got me thinking about how the technology...

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...

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...

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...

The fashion industry is multifaceted: manufacturing, sourcing, design, merchandising, and consumerism, to name just a few examples....

With the pandemic weighing so heavily on our industry, I got to thinking if there were lessons from the past that could help illuminate...

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...

Although we're not out of the woods yet regarding the pandemic and an anemic economy, brands are stirring back to life. But with this...

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...

Anecdotal evidence suggests that consumer demand for mass-market jeans has plummeted during the Covid pandemic. In contrast, demand for...

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....

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...

It's an old story. I've heard it from proponents of Made-in-USA production. How can our industry be truly sustainable if it maintains...

Environmental groups need to be careful about what they wish for: push too hard, and they’ll get what they want, only with unintended...

Cotton isn't in the fabric of our lives anymore. Polyester holds that distinction today. Why is that? Price is a major factor; globally,...