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The app connects clothing brands, and consumers, with individual seamsters who can mend, alter or tailor new or pre-loved clothing. The app has many aims, according to its 24-year-old founder Josephine Philips: It wants to extend the lifetime of clothing, and generate work for the many small seamster businesses on high streets across the country.
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Zara is a Recipe For Disaster
Zara's “success” is about perfecting a model that brands like Shein have taken to new extremes. This is a system that thrives on exploitation, disposability, and unchecked growth.
Corporations like these feed into a global network where profit eclipses ethics,... See more
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The fast-fashion giant has quadrupled its revenue over the past three years, reaching $15.7 billion in sales, and is now looking for $1 billion in funding, and a $100 billion valuation
Shein reportedly adds over 1,000 new styles to its website every single day. Zara typically has 2,000 items over a 30-day period, for... See more
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The declining quality, overwhelmed customer service, and constant drops of “limited edition” “sustainable” clothing feel like textbook results of prioritizing profit. Not very long ago, General Atlantic secured a 45% stake in the company. Since then, it appears that product drops have increased, more Sézane pieces are now made in China, and the... See more
Totally Recommend • The Suffocation Of Sézane
This started with the Seventh Avenue, shop-and-copy approach that has defined the industry, but no longer works with consumers on a global scale. America created the concept of lifestyle brands—it drove the rise of casualization as early as the 1950s, first through denim, then khakis, and now leggings. But the fashion itself has long been... See more