After Years of Globalization, It’s Time to Pay the Tab
The Textile Exchange just celebrated its 20th anniversary -- and did so at an exhilarating conference and trade expo in Colorado Springs....
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Robert Antoshak
Oct 5, 20225 min read
Sustainability in The Age of Uncertainty
We live in an age of uncertainty. You know the story: pandemic, supply chain disruption, a war, tensions over Taiwan, and accelerating...
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Robert Antoshak
Aug 14, 20226 min read
Sustainability and Marketing: Two Sides of The Same Coin?
Say I work for a brand, and I'm looking for some shortcut to boost market share. What factors help me to sell my products? It's a...
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Robert Antoshak
Jun 6, 20224 min read
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
Feb 11, 20226 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20215 min read
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
Sep 13, 20217 min read
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
May 24, 20216 min read
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, 20217 min read
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, 20208 min read
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 9, 20207 min read
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
Jun 11, 20206 min read
Now's The Time For NGOs To Up Their Game
In the famous 1976 movie "Network," a distraught fictional American television news presenter, Howard Beale, had a breakdown on live TV....
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Robert Antoshak
May 14, 20208 min read
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
Mar 13, 20205 min read
Why Is Cotton Always The Apparel Industry's Punching Bag?
Having worked in the cotton business for many years, one of the things I’ve noticed about various clothing brands when pressed about...
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Robert Antoshak
Feb 23, 20204 min read
The Environmental Cost of Online Shopping
Years may change, but some things stay the same. For sure, many of the problems we faced as an industry last year still plague us at the...
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Robert Antoshak
Dec 22, 20195 min read
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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Robert Antoshak
Nov 21, 20196 min read
So, Is Near-Shoring A Thing?
In case you hadn't noticed, our industry is changing. For many companies, extended supply chains are out; sustainability is in. Cheap is...
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Robert Antoshak
Oct 16, 20196 min read
What Price Fast-Fashion and the Future of Clothes?
"Since the invention of the mechanical loom nearly two and a half centuries ago, fashion has been a dirty, unscrupulous business that has...
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Robert Antoshak
Aug 17, 20195 min read
Can Global Supply chains Ever be sustainable?
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...
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