Danielle Vermeer
@daniellevermeer
Co-Founder & CEO of Teleport. Writer of Goodwill Hunting, a newsletter hunting the best pre-loved fashion finds, insights, and jobs. 11+ years of buying no new clothes.
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Per the Clean Clothes Campaign, only about 2 percent of the world’s 60 million garment workers earn a living wage.
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Ambition is the drive to play games that others have created. Climb the corporate ladder. Play politics. Work long hours. Lean in—to corporate feminism.
Danielle Vermeer • Goodwill Hunting #10: cottagecore, girlboss culture, & the end of ambition
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.
Goodwill Hunting • Goodwill Hunting #06: how aggregation theory applies to resale fashion
At surface level, Shein and Depop are polar opposites, but this is more about the what and the how of their business models. Diving deeper, we see that both Shein and Depop address a similar who and why. Both Shein and Depop meet the same underlying consumer needs for trendy, cheap fashion.