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Elsa Klensch, a pioneer in fashion television, dies age 92

Growing up in a small eastern town in Canada in the mid-eighties and nineties fostered a great love for the outdoors, but fashion and culture were difficult to come by. Here the folks were perhaps more akin to hunting moose than digging Moose Knuckles parkas. While there was little exciting retail or fashion brands available at the time, save...

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Wastewater: fashion's grotesk sustainability problem

The water volume consumed by the fashion industry in 2017 was nearly 79 billion cubic meters, enough to fill 32 million Olympic-size swimming pools. Nearly 20 percent of global waste water is produced by the fashion industry. That figure is easily comprehensible when it is broken down into the production per garment, where 5,000 gallons of water...