Danielle Vermeer

Raeburn, a label based in London that focuses on responsible and innovative design, hosts a variety of workshops where attendees are invited to design and customise their own items, using off-cuts from the atelier. 

In the US alone, the secondhand fashion market could grow 20% between 2020 and 2025 to reach $67 billion in size, according to estimates by Business of Fashion Insights.

The luxury secondary market was estimated to be worth $32 billion in 2020, but only 5 to 7 percent of resalable inventory globally was actually resold that year, according to BoF Insights research.

There are four atomic units of a 1.0 flywheel:Acquire: how users are acquired into the community (e.g. they sign up)Consume: the mechanisms that drive content consumption (e.g. a newsfeed)Create: the mechanisms that entice users to create content (e.g. social status)Harvest: how new content created leads to more inbound growth (e.g. SEO)

Product authentication is becoming an area of ever-increasing importance in the battle for brands to provide reassurance and legitimacy in the resale market. 👜

RepLadies is a sub-Reddit dedicated to counterfeit luxury goods, and where a community of mostly millennial women gather to acquire them. Exquisite replicas of everything from designer shoes to Rimowa suitcases are available, but the bags are the real attraction. You can get just about anything in any color for one to 10 percent of the price of the... See more

Shifting fashion from a perpetual growth model to a sustainable approach will not be easy. Moving to a post-growth fashion industry would require policymakers and the industry to bring in a wide range of reforms, and reimagine roles and responsibilities in society.