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Instagram has made shopping your feed a near-seamless experience, which has spawned an endless stream of brands that only exist on the app. But the thrifting accounts toe a line between the personal and commercial. Auctioning off old clothes on Instagram is a very 2020 part-time job, and it follows in the footsteps of other ways teens use social... See more
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Online resale is growing 4X faster than offline. ~$37 B (50% of total)—estimated share of online sales of secondhand fashion by 2024. ~$28 B (43%)—offline thrift & donation (Goodwill, Salvation Army, etc.).
"The unsustainable season-by-season overhaul would give way to designers releasing remixes of their creations and those of others, while smart contracts ensure that creators can share in the value their ideas are generating downstream."
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