TestTag: ATS Fashion Lab
February 27th, 2018
2018: New Frontier for Global Sourcing and the Fashion Business Model
The fashion industry has sure taken a hit as of late. Issues such as fluctuation of currency exchange rate, rising costs, the Retail Apocalypse, digitization of the value chain, slow sales, shorter lead times, etc. have been challenging to say…
February 26th, 2018
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YouTube is not just for cat videos, annoying ads that don’t let you skip, or a black hole in which you watch the entire music video library for an artist in the span of an afternoon. That is because Apparel…
February 23rd, 2018
Apparel Textile Sourcing Takes Mexico
This past Wednesday, Jason Prescott, CEO of JP Communications and producer of ATS-C and ATS-M trade shows, presented to Mexican Apparel & Textile Manufacturers featuring Pro Mexico, CANAIVE and EXINTEX in Mexico City. One goal of the trade shows is not…
February 19th, 2018
Singing the NAFTA Blues: Levi’s and the Future of Apparel Trade
A change in government always brings a change in which a nation conducts business. This may come in the form of bills, policy and of course trade. In the last year, trade has suffered the most back in forth and…
February 15th, 2018
Comin’ in Hot: Countdown to ATS-M
In a society where the fashion industry is oftentimes dismissed as a luxury, the power it holds can be forgotten. A market valued at 3 trillion USD, making up 2% of the world’s GDP, has the ability to impact not…
February 7th, 2018
Istituto Marangoni brings Milan to Miami
What do Miami and Milan have in common? Attractive people, picturesque architecture, a general zest for life…and now a brand-new fashion institute. So, with that being said, Ciao and benvenuto to Istituto Marangoni! The famed Italian fashion school has opened…
January 31st, 2018
The Amazon Effect: Fashion Edition
Amazon has been plotting to take over the Earth (and space!) for a while now. From the way we purchase groceries to the way we turn on our lights in our home, Amazon has seeped into our everyday lives. The…
January 30th, 2018
Sustainable Apparel-Trend or The Future?
“Fashion is a reflection of society, and as such, has joined the global environmental concern to plunge into a new transformation towards sustainable fashion.”- Sara Pistola Grille. The fashion writer sums up the trend of apparel towards a more sustainable approach to…
January 24th, 2018
Style Star Miami is Ready for Industry Growth
“Dismissed for decades as the land that style forgot, the city is having another moment in the fashion sun.” This the opening to a Departures article by Horacio Silva about the long-awaited comeback of Miami fashion. Poignant and honest is…
January 19th, 2018
T-Shirt Prices to Soar Under Brexit?
Brexit, remember that old name? How could we forget the monumental decision when the United Kingdom voted for their exit from the European Union in Summer 2016. There has been much back and forth over whether British control over their…
