Tag: fashion
This odd editorial in Bloomberg requires a discussion. Basically, it explores the problem of fast fashion and particularly its environmental impact. Fair enough, these are problems. But the framing is
BeyoncĂ©’s debut performance as the first black woman headliner at the predominantly all-white pricey music festival Coachella has made history for mainstream music in America. It racked up an i

Tonight’s film takes us all the way ahead to 1936, where some British guy narrates how women should wear their make-up. Thus endeth your LGM fashion tip of the day.
Just here to remind you that everything has pretty much always been terrible: In 1814, a company in Schweinfurt, Germany, called the Wilhelm Dye and White Lead Company developed a new green dye. It wa
In case you thought the Slow Food movement wasn’t white and elite and privileged enough, we now have the Slow Fashion movement. So why not slow clothing? That’s what then-33-year-old weaving t
Let’s say you care about the exploitation of nail salon workers. Rather than just decide to change your habits and not get your nails done or do them yourself, which does nothing to alleviate th
You probably read Sarah Maslin Nir’s excellent investigative report on the labor conditions inside New York nail salons, which are brutal and including wage theft, poisoning from breathing in co
I tend to believe that events have their roots in structural causes rather than the actions of a single individual. And I confess to not thinking too much about nail salons. But who knows, maybe the a
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