What will be the new stop of the fashion sourcing caravan?
McKinsey asks the same question in the report "The apparel sourcing caravan's next stop: Digitization". As you can see, the very name of the report gives us the answer....
We began the previous article by stating, "To ensure sales and to achieve planned profitability, it is no longer enough for today's fashion brands to be on the cutting edge. In seconds, from anywhere in the world, even without...
On the way to 2025.
The large number of changes, both in the financial and technological landscape, as well as the social and political scenario, has triggered an irreversible impact on the way companies will work on a global scale...
Retailers who aspire to win in tomorrow's market must start setting their strategy today. The plan is different for those players who intend to be world leaders based on the importance of their production volumes, on their speed to...
Textile industry, today.
Now, in the second half of this year 2016, as a six-monthly balance, I would like to share with you the vision and expectations of professionals and businessmen of the textile industry that I was able to...
In this new article we continue to analyze the incredible process of the return of apparel and fashion manufacturing from Asia to nearby locations. I have called this budding phenomenon "the neorelocalization of fashion production" to distinguish it from...
It is a pleasure to share with you a great article by Silvia Riera in Modaes on the current situation of the fashion sector, retail and the future of supply, with a paradigm shift that I have personally called...
Textile production by area.
Textile industry in India is organized mostly in the form of “clusters”. A large part of them have been formed naturally, and the current trend is to plan for them in terms of logistics, to reduce...
When industry executives were asked to conceptualize the fashion industry in one word, they expressed three words that outperformed all others: "uncertainty," "challenging," and "changing". They also said that dealing with uncertainty and global economic changes is their biggest...
SWOT Analysis.
As promised in this previous article, we will analyze, through DHL International Supply Chain, each Asian textile producing country in terms of their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities they offer and threats they represent. Supplementary infographics here.
I hope you will find it...
In a previous article we analyzed the five automated technologies that trigger the neorelocalization of the apparel industry and lay the groundwork for fashion 4.0. Later, in Innovation Fashion Forum, I said: "what we have to do now, without...
Countless times, in market fairs and meetings with providers, we have heard the following question from the western buyer to the Chinese vendor:
Do you own a factory?
Or a similar question but expressed with “a sense of need”, not to...
The Institut für Textiltechnik - ITA - is one of the leading research institutes in the field of materials, production processes and products for technical applications of textile structure. Together with the international consulting firm McKinsey and several technology...
"In an environment where brands and fashion retailers are cornered by customers' demand to constantly drop prices, by sudden shifts in customers' preferences and by the pressure to create more and more options - alternative designs - companies in...
"Faster and more versatile fashion during each season is the key to creating an attractive offer for future customers and to achieving the desired success in today's volatile market. Only if fashion brands move from the traditional and historical...
See it now, buy it now or it won't be a chance.
Perhaps, wanting to "see now - buy now" goes far beyond a need for instant gratification: in the temporary world of fast fashion -and now ultra fast fashion- the...
Natural Textile Fibers
In the last few months, I have received several questions through the blog regarding natural textile fibers. Evidently, from the perspective of fashion consumers...
