
Fashionopolis Why What We Wear Matters
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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.
- Paperback | 320 pages
- 140 x 213 x 20mm | 283g
- 08 Sep 2020
- Penguin Putnam Inc
- Penguin USA
- United States
- English
- B&W PHOTOS THROUGHOUT; B&W PHOTOS THROUGHOUT
- 073522403X
- 9780735224032