The trendy second-hand clothing market is huge and still growing – yet nobody is turning a profit

For example, neither the American company ThredUp nor its luxury cousin The RealReal are profitable, disappointing investors and dragging share prices below their IPOs. In 2022, less than two years after going public, the American peer-to-peer resale site Poshmark was acquired by a Korean tech company for $1.2bn (£950m), one-sixth of its IPO valuation. While […]

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Eco-responsible fashion in Paris from McCartney and Serre

PARIS Two of fashion’s most environmentally conscious designers presented their autumn-winter collections on Monday, the penultimate day of Paris Fashion Week. With her father and his Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr watching from the front row, Britain’s Stella McCartney called on the fashion world to “wake up” with a collection that took her sustainable schtick even […]

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Monica Lewinsky’s Reformation Fashion Campaign Generates $2 Million

Monica Lewinsky’s campaign for Reformation was a hit for the sustainable fabric, according to a report released by Launchmetrics on Wednesday. The activist and writer’s collaboration with the brand, which also celebrated their partnership with voter registration efforts with Vote.org, amassed $2.2 million in Media Impact Value within two days. Reformation’s own Instagram post sharing […]

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Sydney Sweeney wore sequinned underwear to Miu Miu’s Paris show

It looks like the trouserless trend is back for another season, according to Sydney Sweeney. The actor showed up to support Miu Miu at the label’s autumn/winter 2024 show in Paris yesterday and, instead of trousers or a skirt, opted for silky white underwear entirely covered in silver sequins and beads. The Anyone but You […]

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‘An ecological disaster’: French bill proposes crackdown on throwaway culture of ultra fast fashion

Guilty of buying into throwaway fashion? This French bill could crack down on unsustainable clothing. ADVERTISEMENT Fast fashion ads could soon be banned in France under a new proposal to crack down on the polluting industry. The bill, tabled by MP Anne-Cécile Violland, also seeks to impose penalties on low-cost clothing to cover its environmental […]

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