A weekend workshop offered by Levi Strauss teaches high schoolers how to extend the life of their clothes with needle and thread.
Fast fashion has emerged as a profitable strategy to drive massive sales, bombarding consumers with a never ending variety of new clothes at cheap prices. Fueled by the pressure to showcase new ...
WENZHOU, China (AP) — At a factory in Zhejiang province on China’s eastern coast, two mounds of discarded cotton clothing and bed linens, loosely separated into dark and light colors, pile up on a ...
The beautiful game has a fast fashion problem, with clubs bringing out multiple kits every season. But a move towards upcycling old shirts and wearing vintage garments is on the rise ...
Your new shirt looks good and it’s a bargain. You wear it a couple of times. You wash it a couple of times. The color starts to fade. The seams come apart. You throw it away. Fast fashion is cheap.
Piles of trashed clothing stretch across the landfill, the vibrant colors of once-trendy garments fading under the sun. As the faint stench rises from decomposing textiles, polyester fibers loosen in ...
WENZHOU, China — At a factory in Zhejiang province on China’s eastern coast, two mounds of discarded cotton clothing and bed linens, loosely separated into dark and light colors, pile up on a workroom ...
Plastic wrapped cotton meant for overseas markets are loaded for transportation from the Wenzhou Tiancheng Textile Company, one of China's largest cotton recycling plants in Wenzhou in eastern China's ...