Without a doubt, influencer culture is contributing to the rise of consumption and making a significant influence on the rise of fast fashion. The ability to buy fashion today...
Since its founding in 2011, the social e-commerce platform, Depop, has blown up to the point in which it’s highly likely that the majority of people you know are...
The trend cycle is shortening and influencers are involved
One of the biggest trends in the last decade that has shifted how we shop, possibly forever, is thrifting. In these recent years, thrifting has been noticed as the...
Hobby Lobby In 2014 the Burwell V Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. ruling in the Supreme Court decided that companies with religious objections may object to providing any sort of...
I have a shopping obsession, I won’t deny it, but over the last year or so I have focused that obsession on sustainable and eco-friendly brands. It can be...
As someone who cares deeply about the environment, yet also loves fashion, I find myself in a perpetual moral dilemma over my consumption of clothing. I want to be...
As society has become more intertwined, being an ethical consumer has become more complex. With different sectors of the world becoming interconnected, it is harder to separate the goods...
The fashion industry has for too long has been unregulated, opaque, and unaccountable, operating to the detriment of the environment. In a consumerist-led society, consumers are trained to find...
Shops and outfitters like Shein, Amazon and Topshop dominate the fast-fashion industry. Each of these companies and others like them often find themselves caught in accusations of using child-labor,...