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AirTalk | Audio: Are ‘Fashion Flippers’ Gentrifying Thrift Shopping? The Complicated Past And Present Of A Booming Industry

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Some thrift shoppers have found ways to profit off their purchases by reselling the goods on sites like Poshmark and Depop. The fashion hauls are popular online and often reach an audience that’s looking for unique, retro or vintage garments. But it’s raising concerns for people who truly need thrift shopping for its affordability. 

According to a recent Vox piece, “How thrifting

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Fashion Tendencies, Newest Fashion Concepts And Elegance Ideas

Fast fashion corporations employ hundreds of their workplaces, shops, and factories and make hundreds of thousands in income each year. For that purpose, advocate argue quick fashion has had a democratizing affect on fashion—and on society. Even these of modest means can constantly buy smart new garments, bask in fun or impractical items, and put on one thing completely different daily. Affordable prices and immediate gratification for consumers, extra income for corporations Fashion, and the democratization of fashionable clothes are among fast fashion’s advantages. Fair Wear Foundation works with brands, factories, commerce unions, NGOs, and typically governments to verify … Read More

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‘Less Is More’: Fashion Hails Slimmed-down Collections

One lasting consequence of the pandemic may be smaller collections — and fashion will be all the better for it, retailers, wholesalers and designers agree.

“I am resolutely for quality over quantity, and doing less is very often more because the designer can focus on making every garment count,” said James Gilchrist, vice president at Comme des Garçons USA and Dover Street Market USA, which operates multibrand emporiums in New York and Los Angeles. “It is exactly what is needed in the industry right now and going forward.”

During the recent round of fashion weeks for the fall 2021 season,

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Fashion Editorials

Guest practitioners from all fashion backgrounds join school in the classroom as visiting lecturers, advisors, and critics. Each semester, a full roster of fashion experts Shopping & Fashion is invited to talk principle and follow with Pratt college students.

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  • The first of those was the 1986 BBC Domesday Project, which included text and photographs from greater than 1,000,000 contributors in
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Police at Fresno’s Fashion Fair is the latest in a string of incidents

FRESNO, California (KSEE) – Fresno Police were once again called to Fashion Fair mall on Friday after the latest in a string of incidents at the shopping center.

This time officers said a man flashed a gun and several more firearms were found with his group.

Officers say shortly before 4:00 p.m., security learned a group was smoking inside the mall.

A Fresno Police officer asked them to leave, which they started to do but then got into a verbal exchange with another group.

“One of the three

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One teen arrested, two more wanted for shooting outside Fashion Fair Mall, police say

FRESNO, California. (KSEE/KGPE) – Three teenagers who were involved in a shooting outside of the Fashion Fair Mall last week have been identified by officers, according to the Fresno Police Department.

Police say all three suspects are known gang members and have been named as 18-year-old Brandon Soto, 19-year-old Vincent Romo, and 19-year-old Angel Burciaga.

On Friday, April 23, officers were able to track down Romo at a home in Dinuba, where police say he was found with a semi-automatic handgun.

Romo was placed under arrest for his alleged part in the shooting that happened at the mall one week

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