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[Link] How Fast-Fashion Giant Shein Used Big Tech to Change the Way We Shop
Read: 23/1/2022 www.vice.com
Depending on where you’ve been scrolling online this past year, you might have seen ads for a company called Shein, bearing taglines like “Make every day your Shein day!” and offers to win 250 outfits with a single click.
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[Link] ‘Just never going to be OK’: report finds luxury brands falling behind on animal welfare
Read: 6/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Despite recent commitments from the luxury fashion industry to reduce its environmental footprint, a report has revealed luxury fashion brands are among the worst in the industry for animal welfare, driven by their continued use of fur and exotic animal skins.
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[Link] The Growing Crusade Against Sex, Muslim Culture, and Lesbians in India’s Ads
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
India’s leading fashion designer was forced to withdraw advertisements for his latest line of wedding jewellery after he was threatened with legal action by a politician from the ruling party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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[Link] Ethical fashion report collars Australian brands over environment and workers’ rights
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Major Australian department store chain Myer is disputing its poor grading in an ethical fashion assessment which found the company is falling short when it comes to reducing its environmental impact and ensuring its supply chains are free of modern-day slavery.
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[Link] Last Year, COVID Racism Came for Wet Markets. Now, Prada Is Trying to Make Them Cool.
Read: 10/10/2021 www.vice.com
Wet markets—the type of marketplace at the center of a debate on how the COVID-19 pandemic started—are now the subject of a high fashion takeover, in a campaign that challenges stereotypes of such markets as dirty alleyways and breeding ground for pathogens.
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[Link] A Bernie Mittens Costume Is Selling on Dolls Kill for $85
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Dolls Kill, the online purveyor of e-girl wares and platform boots, is selling a hot Sen. Bernie Sanders Halloween costume that only costs $85, or nearly 12 hours of labor for shoppers who make the federal minimum wage—pre-taxes!
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[Link] How to Find the Perfect Plain White Tank Top
Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com
Summer in New York is a lobster pot of sweat, poppers, and rogue AC unit drips. I love it. I fear it. I need to be better equipped for it, as a Californian who just moved to Brooklyn who is still learning the ropes of Heattech, rolling carts, and flirting with your bodega cat.
[Link] He Preached Slow Fashion. Then He Collaborated With Fast Fashion Icon H&M.
Read: 14/8/2021 www.vice.com
This week, a hyped-up collaboration between Indian couturier Sabyasachi and fast fashion brand H&M dropped amid much media frenzy.
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