A weekend workshop offered by Levi Strauss teaches high schoolers how to extend the life of their clothes with needle and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In New York State’s Hudson Valley, Lilly Marsh weaves scarves, shawls, and other apparel out of fibers sourced from the Northeast.

Your new shirt looks good and it’s a bargain. You wear it a couple of times. You wash it a couple of times. The color starts to fade. The seams come apart. You throw it away. Fast fashion is cheap.

A global supply chain built for speed is leaving behind waste, toxins, and a trail of environmental wreckage. The Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the most beautiful and forbidding places on earth, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. This is the fourth article in the ongoing series exploring ...

People offload bales of secondhand clothes from a truck at the Kantamanto market in Accra, Ghana, on November 16, 2023. Editor at Large We’ve all done it: dropped a bag of torn tees and threadbare ...

People are buying more clothing today than they did 15 years ago. But they’re only wearing it half as long. That means clothing production and sales are both on the rise, and so is the amount of ...

The discussion surrounding “fast fashion” has grown in recent years as fashion trends have been connected to global warming. Fast fashion involves clothing trends spread through social media by ...

Gloria Donkor worked in the secondhand clothing industry in Accra, Ghana, for three years, going to the market early in the morning to pick through bales of clothing bought by wholesalers and find ...