Every American high schooler enrolled in a U.S. history course should be able to tell you that when Eli Whitney invented the ...

It's no secret that fast fashion imports from international brands like H&M, Zara, and Shein have come to dominate Americans' wardrobes. The U.S. imported more than $24 billion of apparel in 2023, and ...

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What we choose to wear matters. “Fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world,” informs Redress, an environmental nonprofit with an aim to initiate change in the fashion industry.

Fast fashion is overhauling everything about the way many of us shop for clothes: how much we pay, how often we buy, how long we keep a garment. Design trends at the most popular apparel sites are now ...

Is buying secondhand really better for the environment? What about clothing rental services? We asked experts on the fashion ...

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Gloria Donkor worked in the secondhand clothing industry in Accra, Ghana, for three years, going to the market early in the morning to pick through bales of clothing bought by wholesalers and find ...

Fast fashion is bad for people and the planet. This is one of the many baseline assumptions that keep the sustainable fashion movement ticking — and are the focus of recent policies pushing for ...