Defending the New Model Buying Office
The next few years will bring the fight between government tax authorities and customers’ wholly owned buying offices to a new and higher level. Government’s policy can be summed up as follows: If...
View ArticleTHE ISRAEL ELECTION
Once again, Israel faces an existential threat. This time the threat does not come from the Palestinians, the Iranians, or the Arab states. This time the threat comes from within Israel itself; and...
View Article2015 and All That
THE CUSTOMER SIDE A Russian billionaire, driving his Ferrari in Moscow hits an oncoming Russia made Lada The billionaire starts screaming at the Lada driver. My Ferrari! My Ferrari! Do you know how...
View ArticleSustainability v Compliance v Social Overhead Capital v Personal Freedom v v v
Today I received the following comment from one of my most active readers: “Surprised. Just-Style comment “Towards an Asian sustainable development strategy” talks about India in Myanmar, without...
View ArticleTPP WINNERS AND LOSER
It now appears that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) may actually come to pass. Naturally garment industry professionals have jumped in to calculate just who will benefit from TPP and who will not....
View Article2016: Welcome to the New Fashion Consumer by Emma Birnbaum
Crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, radical transparency, slow fashion, minimalist dressing, the five-piece French Wardrobe, the curated wardrobe. These are terms that the new fashion consumer is using to...
View ArticleCutting Edge Companies Focus on Consumer Needs: By Emma Birnbaum
The rules of the new garment industry have more in common with the artisan guilds of pre-industrialized Europe than with 21st century clothing conglomerates. The new suppliers value, endorse and employ...
View ArticleThe Industrial Revolution 2.0 by Emma Birnbaum
All of the changes that are rippling through the garment industry today are occurring because of the internet. To be born in the time of the internet means to exist in a totally interconnected,...
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