Danielle Vermeer

We must remember that when we approach our lives as if we have a limitless range of tolerance, or that our tolerance must be the same as our peers, we’re pursuing our life and our work in an inevitably unsustainable way. We’re all unique. Our biology, our circumstances, experiences, and the environment we are in will influence our range of... See more

Over the past 15 years, clothing production has doubled while the length of time we actually wear these clothes has fallen by nearly 40%.

When you visibly repair something, it becomes individual. That changes our relationship to our clothing and builds connection with it.

The system itself — which, like so many corners of the American labor market, still assumes the support of a partner that does not work full-time outside of the home. If you have that support, you will excel. If you don’t, you either have to make enough money to buy it, or you will (perhaps in slow motion, but inevitably) drown.

The antithesis of ambition isn’t mediocrity, or underperformance, or laziness. The antithesis of ambition is agency.

So how does Aggregation Theory apply to secondhand fashion? Resale aggregation relies on resale digitization.Users must first create digital listings of their physical clothes to sell on resale marketplaces like Poshmark, Depop, Ebay, etc. or get discovered on aggregators of aggregators like GEM.