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02/19/2014

G-StarPower Moves the Needle. Thanks Jenna Duffy and Pharrell Williams

02/08/2014

Congratulations to our friends, the winners of the FMI grant as sponsored by the NYCEDC, CFDA and others:
http://www.nycedc.com/press-release/mayor-de-blasio-marks-beginning-fashion-week-announces-winners-fashion-manufacturing #.UvWH3Hp4pzE.facebook

Mayor Bill de Blasio today marked the beginning of Fashion Week by announcing the inaugural round of winners of the Fashion Manufacturing Initiative (FMI), a $3 million public-private program designed to support and promote growth of small businesses in the city’s fashion and manufacturing sectors

02/05/2014

Well over a year in the making. Here are the results of a study that we participated in which goes on to prove the vital importance of proximity and relationships in the Garment Center and Fashion Industry.

The results reveal the power of agglomeration as we've never been able to see it before.

02/05/2014

Here is a saying/salutation that I learned from my dear friend Richard Catalano:

Have a good today.

Talk about living in the Present.

01/01/2014

Happy New Yew my friends. Some resolutions are so mindlessly simple, this is one of them: Ask yourself (an others), Who made your clothes? Be Mindful.

Show your label and ask brands and participate in the Fashion Revolution.
http://www.fashionrevolution.org/country/usa

12/20/2013

Saving the Jobs Center, Check out the WSJ and Satya Twena: This is how it is done.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304866904579268653212002512

When the Midtown factory that makes Satya Twena's hats abruptly shut its doors, the designer put her thinking cap on.

12/13/2013

Congrats to Amy DuFault for tapping into the David and Goliath pulse in her own informative way. Thanks.

Ambitious initiatives by big companies win headlines. But small companies doing small things are making a big difference, writes Amy DuFault

12/03/2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/01/business/that-made-in-usa-premium.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&smid=fb-share

As a rebuttal: I appreciate, The NY Times, for shining light on the issue and spotlighting some of my friends, colleagues and mentors, HOWEVER, I posit and paraphrase Einstein, "you can't fix a problem with the same thinking that got you into it". Premium American made product is possible at all price points if we fine tune the supply/value chain, take out the middleman (big retail mark-up) and use this thing called The Internet to interact with the customer directly and thereby sell product below an inflated retail and above wholesale. In this scenario, in addition to keeping money in the Local Economy, the increased cost of domestic manufacturing is in part absorbed by the absence of "retail margin" and an honest margin can be made by those actually involved in the process. Anthony Lilore.

Retailers and manufacturers say consumers’ stated desire for clothing produced in the United States is often outweighed by a preference for the lower prices of foreign-made goods.

11/29/2013

We'd like to congratulate our "real friend", Sass Brown, for her comments in this fantastic Guardian article by Hannah Gould:
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/sustainable-fashion-blog/sustainable-fashion-alternative-business-live-chat

Hannah Gould rounds up the highlights from a recent live chat exploring how business, consumers and design students can help shift our patterns of fashion consumption

11/29/2013

Please weigh in.

http://www.tradegood.com/en/insights/viewpoints/ethical-fashion,-not-fast-fashion.html

The aspiration for ethical fashion continues to rise; probably it is now time for more retailers, wholesalers and fashion buyers to respond positively. Picking your supplier partners carefully would be a good first step. Suppliers with fair wages, proper working environments, no child labor and no f...

11/21/2013

Doesn't it always come down to the Fundamentals? Share. Welcome others. Play nice. Try it you'll like it. Say Thank You. And, oh yeah this one too, It's just Better Business because ultimately it is Better for the Bottom Line. Try it you'll like it, Play nice, Welcome others, Share. Thanks Jo Confino.

The very people who put corporate sustainability on the map may be preventing it reaching the mainstream, says Jo Confino