2025 JULY
iApparel Journal Quarterly Issue
FROM ANDREW SIA & IAJ TEAM
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Opening Remark
In our July 2025 issue, we continue our writeup in the ten segments as the following:
Special Report – They are covering the topics calling for our reader’s attention.
The “Global Fashion and Exhibition Calendar” and the “Footwear Tradeshows Calendar” are the two most important reports.
The other reports are areas which should call for special attention. There is information that can be considered as important to know.
Market Intelligence – These are shorter writeups reporting on the retail and fashion industry.
Fashion & Design – Everything that is related to fashion trends ad ideas are being featured here. We have a very knowledgeable contributor here, Genevieve Redding, who oversees the fashion trends for the main seasons. We also feature fashion quotes from the fashion icons.
Technical & Knowledge – The journal began with the articles contributed by the renowned David Morris, later he moved on with very specific seminars for the industry. Unfortunately, he passed away two years ago. In this area we are looking for knowledgeable contributors. We believe that there are so much to do especially during this time when we can add the work from robotics and artificial intelligence.
Market Report – This is the news clips that we are preparing. It also deals with countries and territories.
There are other longer features like “China the Giant Juggernaut.”
Environmental & Sustainability – Our main feature is based on the Paris Climate Accord. The articles are very alarming and hopefully that this can draw the attention of the readers.
Supply Chain – With the latest happenings, we changed our title of our main article to “Globalization 2.0 – A Journey with Hope, Faith & Gratitude” to reflect the current challenge.
Entrepreneurship & Business – We present different case studies and hopefully that our readers can pick them up for startups.
Book Report – It is important to share knowledge here with our readers. We are trying to find interesting books to introduce to our readers.
Academic & Education – With everything that have taken the virtual route, we want to use this to promote any interesting courses to our readers. We are looking for participants.
Going forward, we are still trying to explore other ways of presenting our writeups. We need to reach out to a bigger audience, and most important is to hear the response, and hopefully more participations from our readers. At this moment, our writeups are posting in the LinkedIn and we don’t hear back from the readers, only a few of our acquaintances from the industry. It is not enough to boost our work.
We are studying to start a blog and to post our writeup there, hopefully that we can catch a wider audience.
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Quarterly Issue !
About this July 2025 Issue
We have to apologize that the issue can be completed only in its later days. In fact, the last articles are published toward the end of January 2026. For those more critical and time demanding articles, we managed to publish them as early as we could. Many of you could have come to know that we have consolidated everything and have moved ourselves to a senior community. We are starting our life under a new environment, and before we can completely settle down, we are still holding up a lot of our work. We ask for your understanding.
Without further delay, we sum up the articles in the different segments as the following for the briefings.
Special Report
Global Fashion & Exhibition Calendar – October 2025 to June 2026
| By Andrew Sia
We are trying to keep ourselves updated with the report of the fashion and exhibition calendar. We can’t stress enough the importance of this report as it is useful for everyone who is in the business of fashion especially in the intimate apparel and swimwear industry. Altogether we have listed 32 exhibitions which we consider as the most important of all.
This time our world is being threatened with tariffs which are disrupting our supply chain. The manufacturers would need to have the wisdom to take the work to the less volatile countries where the geopolitical situations are not that severe and critical. My heart goes out to those who are struggling and have to find the stable environment to run their business.
I urge everyone not to give up but to get ourselves more ready for the next opportunity to come. I hope that this dark moment will be soon over.
Footwear Tradeshows Calendar – October 2025 to June 2026
| By Andrew Sia
In this report we have listed more than 30 shows around the world in countries like the US, Turkey, Brazil, Vietnam, Australia, Italy, Spain, Brazil, and China.
It is very interesting to learn from these tradeshows there are conferences and seminars discussing the sustainability. We read that organizers have raised question about the uncertainty around the impact of tariffs and it is critical to meet with the vendors to understand any changes to pricing and inventory management. There are significant influences that have caused the ineffectiveness of the supply chain, and also inflation is inevitable under this situation.
We hope that with the effort we spent on the footwear sector can bring us readers from this industry. We would like to have more interaction among the industry.
