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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...
Robert Antoshak
Mar 15, 20217 min read
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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...
Robert Antoshak
Dec 28, 20203 min read
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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,...
Robert Antoshak
Aug 11, 20208 min read
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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...
Robert Antoshak
Jul 10, 20207 min read
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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...
Robert Antoshak
May 15, 20208 min read
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Does Covid-19 Mark the End of Globalization?
Are we witnessing the end of globalization? The simple answer is no. But, there is a more nuanced answer that I'd like to suggest:...
Robert Antoshak
May 1, 20206 min read
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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...
Robert Antoshak
Oct 17, 20196 min read
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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...
Robert Antoshak
Jun 15, 20155 min read
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