UK Fashion & Textile Association (UKFT) will organize a webinar on ‘Reshoring fashion production to the UK’ on April 6. The webinar will discuss topics such as reshoring, CMT vs fully factored production, UK manufacturing capabilities and services, internal organisation, cost implications, lead times and import and export. It will also discuss the implications with this, the considerations for business models and where lie the benefits and drawbacks.

Elliot Barlow, Manufacturing Consultant, UKFT will head the webinar. Barlow has worked in a variety of different production environments and his expertise has been forged from hands-on experience managing high-end clothing factories in London, his own consultancy business producing for multiple brands and designers in the UK and more recently in senior management roles in-house and as a consultant for the UKFT. Barlow has been involved in producing clothing at all levels of quality, volume and design-philosophy and understands the necessary steps required to work effectively with manufacturers.