Author of Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
I recently talked with Mark Brodie from KJZZ, NPR member radio station out of Phoenix, on “Why Inexpensive Clothes Can Have High Environmental Costs.” While Mark notes that it’s gotten easier and cheaper to buy clothes over the past several years, as “fast fashion” has become more prevalent, we have a discussion on just why …
Taylor Bryant from Nylon writes in her recent article on clothing waste, “What actually happens to your donated clothes is a very involved process with a lot of complicated layers, each worth taking the time to understand. Let’s start here: Contrary to popular (naive) belief, less than 20 percent of clothing donations sent to charities …
NPR All Things Considered interviewed Elizabeth Cline about her experience of falling into the fast world of fast fashion. When she got out of college and moved to New York, Elizabeth liked to shop at vintage clothing stores. They were the kinds of places tucked away on side streets in Manhattan and Brooklyn, where a …