Do Current Consumer Attitudes Foretell Apparel's Future?
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...
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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
- Dec 28, 2020
- 3 min
A New Year, A New Blog
The year 2020 may go down in history as an inflection point, a time of significant change when so much went so wrong. But from out of...
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Robert Antoshak
- Dec 16, 2020
- 6 min
Will A Troubled Presidential Transition Add To Apparel Industry Woes?
(Co-Authored with Fashion+Sustainability advisor, Thomasine Dolan Dow.) As Americans, we're concerned that the presidential transition...
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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
- Nov 21, 2019
- 6 min
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
- Jun 2, 2019
- 7 min
Economic Inequality and its Impact on Apparel Demand
There seems to be growing concern over the future of capitalism – at least the American variety – so says The Washington Post in a...
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Robert Antoshak
- Apr 20, 2019
- 7 min
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
- Nov 23, 2018
- 9 min
The Challenge for Cotton Amid a Changing Consumer Landscape
Have you heard the latest? Cotton is dirty. That’s right, cotton uses more pesticides than any other crop, is responsible for countless...
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Robert Antoshak
- Dec 17, 2017
- 4 min
Maybe It’s Time For A Single Cotton Sustainability Standard
Environmental groups need to be careful about what they wish for: push too hard, and they’ll get what they want, only with unintended...
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Robert Antoshak
- Sep 4, 2017
- 3 min
Understanding Sustainability in an Unstable World
First, there was Brexit. Then there was Trump. Now we have talk of undoing trade agreements and potential trade wars. On top of this...
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Robert Antoshak
- Jul 4, 2016
- 7 min
Beyond Globalization: A Changing Textile and Apparel Industry
There are two distinct tiers of today’s textile and apparel industry to approach consumers. One tier embraces intricate far-flung global...
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Robert Antoshak
- Jun 15, 2015
- 5 min
The 'True Cost' of the Global Garment Business
It’s about time. Someone has finally produced a compelling documentary about the ills of the global garment industry. I’m speaking about...
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Robert Antoshak
- Jun 24, 2014
- 7 min
Cotton's Muddled Message
[Editor's note: I wrote this back in 2014, but we're still faced with the same muddled message about cotton today.] As you read this...
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