From Field to Shelf

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

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...

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...

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

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

(Co-Authored with April Kappler, consultant to the cotton and textile supply chain.) Thomas Hobbes, the 17th Century English philosopher,...

We live in such difficult times. It's like the world has been turned upside down. What worked before is now failing. Darkness has...

Two recent articles left me wondering about where our world, let alone our industry, will end up once the Covid-19 pandemic eases. The...

Having worked in the cotton business for many years, one of the things I’ve noticed about various clothing brands when pressed about...

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...

"Since the invention of the mechanical loom nearly two and a half centuries ago, fashion has been a dirty, unscrupulous business that has...

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,...