Whoever thinks that philosophers are shabby dressers with no sense of style, and that fashion designers are egotistical illiterates only worried about the length of hems, better think again. Emanuele ...

Fast fashion dominates the clothing industry, producing cheap, disposable garments with enormous environmental costs. At ...

The EU's exports of used textiles has tripled since 2000. Experts say the fate of these items abroad is "highly uncertain." When sustainability expert Lars Mortensen tried to work out how European ...

SINGAPORE: Ms Taahira Mohamed Ayoob stopped buying fast fashion in an attempt to stand out from the crowd. She still wanted a variety of clothes to wear, so she turned to clothes swapping. But it has ...

MADRID/NAIROBI (Reuters) - Clothes recycling is the pressure-release valve of fast fashion, and it's breaking under COVID-19 curbs. The multi-billion-dollar trade in second-hand clothing helps prevent ...

Ghana — The rise of fast fashion in the United States is supporting an invisible "salvage market" that sees American clothes waste shipped to faraway countries where it fills marketplaces, clogs up ...

Amber Martin-Woodhead has received funding from the Royal Geographical Society for research on minimalism. Yet a survey of UK adults found that 57% of respondents owned new clothes they’d never worn.

ALTO HOSPICIO, Chile—An eerie site awaits those driving past this northern city toward a sprawl of the Atacama Desert. There, a “graveyard” of discarded clothing, shoes, bags and other unwanted items ...

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