A Canadian luxury cashmere brand with over 40 years of operating history — previously producing 100% of its orders in Italy — transitioned its entire production program to WFS Cashmere after a 2019 meeting at a Paris trade fair, while continuing to specify the same top-tier Italian

An Italian menswear brand — a regular exhibitor at PITTI UOMO, designed personally by its owner, and originally backed by its own small knitting workshop in Italy — has partnered with WFS Cashmere for its seasonal knitwear production, working exclusively in high-count pure cotton an

Executive SummaryA second-generation Italian luxury womenswear brand has trusted WFS Cashmere with their pure cashmere and cashmere-silk knitwear production for over ten years, growing annual order volume from €20,000–€30,000 in the early years to close to €2 million at peak, while maintaining an un

I've sat across the table from a lot of buyers who open a meeting with "we need a new yarn." That's usually the wrong first question, and I tell them so. When a tech pack lands on my desk without a clear answer to "what is this collection supposed to do for your business," the yarn conversation is p

I've sat on both sides of the sourcing table. Before I ran a factory floor, I spent years listening to buyers describe what went wrong with the last one. The stories repeat themselves: a sample that should have taken ten days took thirty. A tech pack that got "confirmed" over email, then reopened tw

IntroductionI've handled thousands of cashmere sweaters that were technically "the same fiber" and felt nothing alike in the hand. One holds its shape after a season of wear. The other pills at the cuff by week three. The raw material didn't lie — the process did.That's the part sourcing teams don't