Why It’s So Hard To Break Up With Fast Fashion
Fast fashion has already been exposed for its negative impact on workers and the planet. A fashion industry insider explains how companies and brands keep us hooked.
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Show Notes
The consequences of fast fashion are well known: worker exploitation, environmental damage and poor quality items. And yet many of us keep buying it — either unknowingly, in willful ignorance or because it feels like there is no other option. Fashion industry insider and “Clotheshorse” podcast host Amanda Lee McCarty joins Anita to interrogate why fast fashion has such a particular hold on us and what we can do about it.
Meet the guest:
- Amanda Lee McCarty is the host of the “Clotheshorse” podcast and a self-employed fashion consultant
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