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Date with an Author: Dana Thomas, Author of “Fashionopolis” Monday
December 14, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Greenwich Library is pleased to present Date with an Author featuring bestselling author and veteran journalist Dana Thomas. Thomas will discuss her 2019 book Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes, which investigates the damage wrought by our massive clothing industry—and the grassroots, high-tech global movement fighting to reform it.
Each morning we wake up and ask ourselves a basic question: “What will I wear today?” In our era of “fast fashion”—with the worldwide clothing industry producing 80 billion new garments annually, and employing one out of six people on the globe—we are more likely than ever before to choose something brand new, low-priced, and made in a developing nation. But the cheap consumer price tag has an enormous cost on the environment and the economy—and it exploits laborers around the world.
Register to receive a link to the pre-recorded interview, which will go live on Monday, December 14 at 7:00 pm. Subscribe to the Library’s YouTube channel to watch at your convenience.
