• Stop buying CHEAP! The dirty side of fast fashion with Dana Thomas

  • May 8 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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Stop buying CHEAP! The dirty side of fast fashion with Dana Thomas

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  • Fast fashion is widely considered to be low-quality apparel produced rapidly to follow current trends in the industry and sold at rock-bottom prices. Although the monetary cost is low, textile workers and the environment are paying a high price. Patricia talks with Dana Thomas, the author of Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes. About Dana Thomas - Thomas began her career writing for the Style section of The Washington Post, and for fifteen years she served as a cultural and fashion correspondent for Newsweek in Paris. She is currently a contributing editor for British Vogue, and a regular contributor to The New York Times Style section. Thomas has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and Architectural Digest. In 1987, she received the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation’s Ellis Haller Award for Outstanding Achievement in Journalism. In 2016, the French Minister of Culture named Thomas a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. And in 2017, she was a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good. She lives in Paris. Find Patricia Beccalli On the PulseTV on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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