Summary: <a href="https://americanfashionpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/episode_121_banner.png"></a><br> <br> Reshoring, an awkward word for an essential concept: bringing manufacturing back from overseas. Instrumental in this process are new agile factories, able to produce at low cost in smaller quantities. One company creating such factories, and making a major difference for a lot of emerging desingers and even established brands adapting to new market conditions, is Kathryn Hilderbrand's <a href="http://www.goodclothingcompany.com/" target="_blank">Good Clothng Company</a>, on Cape Cod and in Fall River, Massachusetts.<br> <br> In the studio for this episode are <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathrynhilderbrand" target="_blank">Kathryn Hilderbrand</a> and two of her advisers: a public policy expert who served in the Obama Administration, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-linton-7096aa30" target="_blank">Mark Linton</a>, and fashion industry veteran and Project Runway superstar, Tim Gunn.<br> "Well, I think Kathryn is beautifully addressing our biggest challenge, which is to re-shore." - Tim Gunn<br> What is different about these new more agile factories? What can a home sewer learn in 12 weeks that makes them ready to sew in a factory? Is the capacity for re-shoring to the United State ready, or will it be ready?<br> Denovation - abandoning an idea or technology, which had formerly, perhaps wrongly, been seen as progressive.
