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The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
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An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it....
What should I wear? It’s one of the fundamental questions we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we are told it should be something new. Today, the clothing industry churns out 80 billion garments a year and employs every sixth person on Earth. Historically, the apparel trade has exploited labor, the environment, and intellectual property - and in the last three decades, with the simultaneous unfurling of fast fashion, globalization, and the tech revolution, those abuses have multiplied exponentially, primarily out of view. We are in dire need of an entirely new human-scale model. Best-selling journalist Dana Thomas has traveled the globe to discover the visionary designers and companies who are propelling the industry toward that more positive future by reclaiming traditional craft and launching cutting-edge sustainable technologies to produce better fashion.
In Fashionopolis, Thomas sees renewal in a host of developments, including printing 3-D clothes, clean denim processing, smart manufacturing, hyperlocalism, fabric recycling - even lab-grown materials. From small-town makers and Silicon Valley whizzes to such household names as Stella McCartney, Levi’s, and Rent the Runway, Thomas highlights the companies big and small that are leading the crusade.
We all have been casual about our clothes. It's time to get dressed with intention. Fashionopolis is the first comprehensive look at how to start.
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- Narrado por: Danny Gavigan
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
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Alec MacGillis’ Fulfillment is not another inside account or exposé of our most conspicuously dominant company. Rather, it is a literary investigation of the America that falls within that company’s growing shadow. As MacGillis shows, Amazon’s sprawling network of delivery hubs, data centers, and corporate campuses epitomizes a land where winner and loser cities and regions are drifting steadily apart, the civic fabric is unraveling, and work has become increasingly rudimentary and isolated.
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Missing some important angles
- De D. Zimmerle en 08-19-21
De: Alec MacGillis
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China, Inc.
- De: Ted C. Fishman
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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China today is visible everywhere: In the news, in the economic pressures battering America, in the workplace, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential, this dramatic account of China's growing dominance as an industrial super-power by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the global economic order has occurred, and why it already affects us all.
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Just read the Amazon reviews befor buying it ...
- De Dan en 08-10-05
De: Ted C. Fishman
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Cheap
- The High Cost of Discount Culture
- De: Ellen Ruppel Shell
- Narrado por: Lorna Raver
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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From the shuttered factories of the rust belt to the look-alike strip malls of the sun belt---and almost everywhere in between---America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little examined obsession is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force of our time---the engine of globalization, outsourcing, planned obsolescence, and economic instability in an increasingly unsettled world.
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You Get What You Pay For?
- De Roy en 07-26-09
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Audacity of Hops
- The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution
- De: Tom Acitelli, Tony Magee - foreword
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 19 h y 46 m
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Based on extensive archival research as well as interviews with the movement's key players going back to the 1960s, this acclaimed book is the most comprehensive chronicle yet of one of the most interesting and lucrative culinary trends in the US since World War II. Acitelli weaves the story of the rise of American craft beer into the tales of trends like Slow Food and the rebirth of America's urban areas, and paints an unforgettable portrait of plucky entrepreneurial triumph.
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learned a lot of information
- De Derek b. en 05-19-24
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American Dreamer
- My Life in Fashion and Business
- De: Peter Knobler, Tommy Hilfiger
- Narrado por: Kevin Free
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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American Dreamer brims with anecdotes that cover Tommy's years as a club kid and scrappy entrepreneur in 1970s New York as well as unique insights into the exclusive A-list personalities with whom he's collaborated and interacted, from Mick Jagger and David Bowie to Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. But this is more than just a fashion icon's memoir - it's a road map for building a brand, both professionally and personally.
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Reveals a great deal people didn't know
- De LEE en 10-30-18
De: Peter Knobler, y otros
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The LEGO Story
- How a Little Toy Sparked the World’s Imagination
- De: Jens Andersen
- Narrado por: Peter Cross
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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It’s estimated that each year between eighty and ninety million children around the globe are given a box of LEGO, while up to ten million adults buy sets for themselves. Yet LEGO is much more than a dizzying number of plastic bricks that can be put together and combined in countless ways. LEGO is also a vision of the significance of what play can mean for humanity.
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Great book! Don't miss this
- De hgpilot - MM en 04-27-23
De: Jens Andersen
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Samsung Rising
- The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech
- De: Geoffrey Cain
- Narrado por: Michael Braun
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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Based on years of reporting on Samsung for The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and Time, from his base in South Korea, and his countless sources inside and outside the company, Geoffrey Cain offers a penetrating look behind the curtains of the biggest company nobody in America knows. Seen for decades in tech circles as a fast follower rather than an innovation leader, Samsung today has grown to become a market leader in the United States and around the globe.
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Misleading title
- De Kevin en 02-25-21
De: Geoffrey Cain
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Chronicles of a Fashion Buyer
- The Mostly True Adventures of an International Fashion Buyer
- De: Mercedes Gonzalez
- Narrado por: Mercedes Gonzalez
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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Fashion is a business of smoke and mirrors, notorious for crushing the souls of most who dare to be part of the industry. Go on a global expedition with New York City-based fashion buyer, strategist, and consultant, Mercedes Gonzalez, as she learns that there is no glamour in fashion and that only cutthroat corporate espionage prevails. From politicking with blood diamond dealers and Russian kingpins to living in indigenous villages, she has relied on her street smarts and fear of her uncle in order to outwit the industry tyrants at their own game.
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Very Enagaging
- De Rainbow en 07-31-23
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Primal Branding
- Create Zealots for Your Brand, Your Company, and Your Future
- De: Patrick Hanlon
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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What is it that made Starbucks an overnight sensation and separated it from other coffee house companies? Why do many products with great product innovation, perfect locations, terrific customer experiences, even breakthrough advertising, fail to get the same visceral traction in the marketplace as brands like Apple and Nike?
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Good book, hard to stay interested
- De Axiom Brevity en 11-21-16
De: Patrick Hanlon
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KasiNomic Revolution
- The Rise of African Informal Economies
- De: GG Alcock
- Narrado por: GG Alcock
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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Prepare for this new generation, prepare for the Afripolitan Generation. A revolution is taking place in the great marketplaces of the informal sector and it contains an unquantified scale and power as an economic engine and a way of life for the majority of our low-income populations. The KasiNomic Revolution may still be a murmur in the streets, a grassroots economic groundswell, but it is the future of African economic activity.
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Exciting and Eye Opening
- De Hendrik en 12-11-23
De: GG Alcock
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Garbology
- Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
- De: Edward Humes
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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The average American produces 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime, and $50 billion in squandered riches are rolled to the curb each year. But our bins are just the starting point for a strange, impressive, mysterious, and costly journey that may also represent the greatest untapped opportunity of the century. In Garbology, Edward Humes investigates trash - what's in it; how much we pay for it; how we manage to create so much of it; and how some families, communities, and even nations are finding a way back from waste to discover a new kind of prosperity.
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A phenomenal read & serious eye-opener
- De Andy Feicht en 10-07-18
De: Edward Humes
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Boom, Bust, Exodus
- The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities
- De: Chad Broughton
- Narrado por: Stephen McLaughlin
- Duración: 15 h y 34 m
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In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 33,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and economic life for decades. Workers at the plant earned $15.14 an hour, had good insurance, and were assured a solid retirement. In 2004, the plant was relocated to Reynosa, Mexico, where workers sometimes spent 13-hour days assembling refrigerators for $1.10 an hour.
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A Story I thought I Knew
- De Meek84 en 07-08-18
De: Chad Broughton
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Trade-Off
- Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't
- De: Kevin Maney
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
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In Trade-Off, Kevin Maney shows how these conflicting forces determine the success, or failure, of new products and services in the marketplace. He shows that almost every decision we make as consumers involves a trade-off between fidelity and convenience between the products we love and the products we need.
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No Trade-Offs for Reading Trade-Off
- De Joshua Kim en 06-10-12
De: Kevin Maney
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Once luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty. It offered a history of tradition, superior quality, and a pampered buying experience. Today, however, luxury is simply a product packaged and sold by multibillion-dollar global corporations focused on growth, visibility, brand awareness, advertising, and, above all, profits. Award-winning journalist Dana Thomas digs deep into the dark side of the luxury industry to uncover all the secrets that Prada, Gucci, and Burberry don’t want us to know.
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In February 2011 John Galliano, the lauded head of Christian Dior, imploded with a drunken, anti-Semitic public tirade. Exactly a year earlier, celebrated designer Alexander McQueen took his own life three weeks before his women's wear show. Both were casualties of the war between art and commerce that has raged within fashion for the last two decades.
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Captivating
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To Dye For
- How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick—and How We Can Fight Back
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Many of us are aware of the ethical minefield that is fast fashion: the dodgy labor practices, the lax environmental standards, and the mountains of waste piling up on the shores of developing countries. But have you stopped to consider the dangerous effects your clothes are having on your own health? Award-winning journalist Alden Wicker breaks open a story hiding in plain sight: the unregulated toxic chemicals that are likely in your wardrobe right now, how they’re harming you, and what you can do about it.
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Well written expose proves suspicions correct.
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The Curious Economics of Luxury Fashion
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The book includes stories of the people and workings of luxury fashion, from New York, London, Paris, Milan—and in the rapidly growing markets of China.
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What a poorly written book
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Overdressed
- The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
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Cheap fashion has fundamentally changed the way most Americans dress. Stores ranging from discounters like Target to fast fashion chains like H&M now offer the newest trends at unprecedentedly low prices. Retailers are producing clothes at enormous volumes in order to drive prices down and profits up, and they've turned clothing into a disposable good.
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Very informative and worth a listen.
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The Psychology of Fashion
- The Psychology of Everything
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- Narrado por: Susan Osman
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The Psychology of Fashion offers an insightful introduction to the exciting and dynamic world of fashion in relation to human behaviour, from how clothing can affect our cognitive processes to the way retail environments manipulate consumer behaviour. The book explores how fashion design can impact healthy body image, how psychology can inform a more sustainable perspective on the production and disposal of clothing, and why we develop certain shopping behaviours.
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I was interested but it's academic, rather a snore
- De Arlene821 en 01-06-24
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Deluxe
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Great books, terrible narration
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Gods and Kings
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Captivating
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To Dye For
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What a poorly written book
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Overdressed
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Cheap fashion has fundamentally changed the way most Americans dress. Stores ranging from discounters like Target to fast fashion chains like H&M now offer the newest trends at unprecedentedly low prices. Retailers are producing clothes at enormous volumes in order to drive prices down and profits up, and they've turned clothing into a disposable good.
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Very informative and worth a listen.
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The Psychology of Fashion
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The Kingdom of Prep
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FANtastic Read!
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Worn
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Sofi Thanhauser brilliantly tells five stories—Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool—about the clothes we wear and where they come from, illuminating our world in unexpected ways. She takes us from the opulent court of Louis XIV to the labor camps in modern-day Chinese-occupied Xinjiang. We see how textiles were once dyed with lichen, shells, bark, saffron, and beetles, displaying distinctive regional weaves and knits, and how the modern Western garment industry has refashioned our attire into the homogenous and disposable uniforms popularized by fast-fashion brands.
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The Fabric of Civilization
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The story of humanity is the story of textiles - as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world.
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Pop journalism article lengthened into a book
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Wear It Well
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Personal stylist Allison Bornstein has mastered the art of helping people look good and feel good. In Wear It Well, she shares her philosophy and outlines systems that will bring your style into alignment and create a wardrobe that delights your spirit.
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How to Build a Fashion Icon
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Law Roach is the mastermind behind looks that have broken the Internet time and again—from Zendaya at the Met Gala to Anya Taylor-Joy at the Golden Globes, from Lewis Hamilton’s iconic streetwear to Céline Dion’s style renaissance. Nobody knows better than Law how to turn an outfit into a moment of fashion history. Now, for the first time ever, Law shares the secrets of his approach. With How to Build a Fashion Icon, he takes listeners behind the scenes of his process and journey.
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Inspiring Read!
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In Secondhand, Adam Minter delves into the vast, multibillion-dollar industry that resells used stuff around the world. He follows the trail of unwanted objects from the closets, garages, and storage units of Middle America to epic used-goods markets in Canada, Mexico, Japan, Ghana, India, Malaysia, and beyond. Secondhand takes us through the often painful and heartbreaking process of cleaning out a lifetime’s worth of possessions and shows that used stuff still has a place in a world that values the new and shiny.
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The Conscious Closet
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In her landmark investigation Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, Elizabeth L. Cline first revealed fast fashion’s hidden toll on the environment, garment workers, and even our own satisfaction with our clothes. The Conscious Closet shows exactly what we can do about it. Whether your goal is to build an effortless capsule wardrobe, keep up with trends without harming the environment, buy better quality, seek out ethical brands, or all of the above, The Conscious Closet is packed with the vital tools you need.
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Dress Codes
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As a child, Anna Wintour was a tomboy with no apparent interest in clothing but, seduced by the miniskirts and bob haircuts of swinging 1960s London, she grew into a fashion-obsessed teenager. Her father, an influential newspaper editor, loomed large in her life, and once he decided she should become editor-in-chief of Vogue, she never looked back.
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The Golden Thread
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From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes that sparked the Industrial Revolution, The Golden Thread weaves an illuminating story of human ingenuity. Design journalist Kassia St. Clair guides us through the technological advancements and cultural customs that would redefine human civilization - from the fabric that allowed mankind to achieve extraordinary things (traverse the oceans and shatter athletic records) and survive in unlikely places (outer space and the South Pole).
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The Plaza
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The Plaza is the account of one vaunted New York City address that has become synonymous with wealth and scandal, opportunity and tragedy. With glamour on the surface and strife behind the scenes, it is the story of how one hotel became a mirror reflecting New York's place at the center of the country's cultural narrative for over a century.
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With his now-legendary store on 125th Street in Harlem, Dapper Dan pioneered high-end streetwear in the 1980s, remixing classic luxury-brand logos into his own innovative, glamorous designs. But before he reinvented haute couture, he was a hungry boy with holes in his shoes, a teen who daringly gambled drug dealers out of their money, and a young man in a prison cell who found nourishment in books. In this remarkable memoir, he tells his full story for the first time.
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- djchristy
- 03-11-24
Eye Opening Insight to Fashion
Love, love, love this audio book. So much information about the cycle of fashion. I've always wondered what happens to clothes that aren't bought from the stores and why we don't have Decades of fashion anymore. If you're into fashion this is a must read.
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- Meghan
- 01-06-20
Everyone whp wears clothes must read
So insightful and well researched! The author really knows how to create a narritive while reporting facts.
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- 01-05-20
Very informative and optimistic
Great book about the problems in the fashion industry. Highlights key players and what they are doing to make positive change. Super interesting information I had not heard before.
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- edynaye
- 06-15-20
A must-read on sustainability for fashion!
Fabulous, well-rounded view of vital sustainability topics for fashion!!! I have been reading and researching sustainability in the apparel and textiles industry for a number of years now, but this book furthered my understanding of sustainability concepts, the current industry situation, what designers are currently doing, and future suggestions. I highly recommend this book!
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- Chelsea Lensing
- 09-11-19
Everyone who purchases clothes should read this book
Great, informative book. Well researched and compelling. A must read for clothing wearers, designers and clothing wearing humans!
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- Mariah Gullatte
- 08-26-21
Fantastic!
This text is a window into the world of how the clothing industry affects cultures, economies, and the social impact. I love this book!
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- MarlaThyme
- 03-03-24
Wonderful Book and eye opening
Learned a lot from this book, will re read again the future. Thank you for your work into the book and helping me focus on removing fast fashion
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- Anne Lyth
- 04-13-20
Brilliantly told, current and worth reading
This is a book everyone should read/listen to. The message is loud and clear, but not downcasting in all. It has a lot of great information and makes me want to be a better person, changing my buying habits to be more sustainable. I highly recommend it.
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- L. Hershberger
- 01-18-23
Enlightening, fascinating, hopeful despite current imperfections in the clothing biz
I know a lot about fast fashion snd its impact on the earth and humans in different regions. Yet: this informed me and kept me interested and informed. It gave me new areas to pursue knowledge.
I feel better/energized after this listen. Also, the author did a good job reading.
My only discomfort was that when French words are pronounced in French, I can get lost. It’s part of the history of fashion, but it’s hard on lay people who studied other languages (or perhaps only their own).
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- Mike Mc
- 04-06-20
well researched on fashion and manufacturing
Great stories and facts on the fashion industry, the failings of fast fashion, the rebirth of craft and the future with ecommerce. Well narrated.
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