Maxine Bedat lays bare the fashion industry's impacts and how we can change it
October 19, 2023
October 19, 2023
ITHACA, New York, Oct. 19 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
The average American woman today owns seven pairs of jeans and consumers worldwide buy 1.25 billion pairs of them annually. But what impact does the demand for these ubiquitous garments have on the environment and on the lives of the workers who make them?
Maxine Bedat, cofounder of the fashion company Zady, set out to answer those questions by tracing the history of a single pair of jeans from a . . .
The average American woman today owns seven pairs of jeans and consumers worldwide buy 1.25 billion pairs of them annually. But what impact does the demand for these ubiquitous garments have on the environment and on the lives of the workers who make them?
Maxine Bedat, cofounder of the fashion company Zady, set out to answer those questions by tracing the history of a single pair of jeans from a . . .