People don’t care much about sweatshops but they “might” if the information was accessible…
The V&A’s latest exhibition site features a great sixties TV documentary on the swinging London fashion scene.
They say we’re shopping too much. Then again, on the other side, some people are making their own. Personally, if I could just buy fairly-made items that don’t disintegrate after a year I’d be happy camper.
Three Swedish men have established a line of jeans made in North Korea and sold in Stockholm. But they weren’t prepared for the criticism their pants have produced.
British-born bootmaker Julian Imrie has led a singular life.
The choice between synthetics or animal materials is a false binary because they both present real problems.
It's not your imagination, products you buy are worse now. Fashion falls apart. Gadgets become unusable, etc. Mainly due to accelerating market changes rather than a deliberate reduction in material quality alone.
Fast-forward a handful of decades, and now several generations of people are conditioned to buy the new thing and to keep replacing it. Companies, in turn, amp up production accordingly. It’s less so that objects are intended to break — functional planned obsolescence, if you will — but rather that consumer mindsets are oriented around finding the better object
New research shows that sweat has the potential to extract chemical additives from synthetics that are contained in sports technical clothing. We often worry about chemicals in food, but they could infiltrate our bodies in other ways.
