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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From Field to Shelf
Opinion about the global market for cotton, textiles and apparel.
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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
- Nov 20, 2020
- 5 min
U.S. Political Divisions Complicate Fashion's Future
Oddly enough, when writing this month's column, I originally intended to discuss likely economic recovery scenarios and how those could...
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Robert Antoshak
- Oct 17, 2019
- 6 min
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 18, 2019
- 5 min
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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Robert Antoshak
- Oct 28, 2018
- 4 min
Tariffs and The Cost to Sustainability
In a world of trade wars, disrupted supply chains, and rising raw material costs, can the apparel industry afford sustainability? For...
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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
- Sep 1, 2016
- 6 min
The Spear of Globalization and a World Divided
Protestors were arrested in Brussels recently for pelting trade officials with confetti, upset over the latest round of Transatlantic...
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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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Robert Antoshak
- May 24, 2012
- 1 min
The Impact and Unforeseen Implications of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement
As many of you may recall, there was a time when global trade in textiles and apparel was regulated by a system of quotas operated under...
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