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Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion—and the Future of Clothes
By Thomas, Dana
- ISBN
- 9780735224018 9780735224025
- Publisher
- Penguin Pr.
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Reviewed on August 1, 2019 | Clothing Costs
Journalist Thomas offers a wide-ranging exposé of the fashion industry. Her book title invokes themes from "Cottonopolis"—the sobriquet for Manchester, England, and birthplace of the 18th-century Industrial Revolution—to Metropolis, a 1927 dystopian film about low-wage factory work. This work describes a similarly massive, problematic modern industry, which allows capitalism to run amok and pushes rampant consumerism and endless consumption. It affects ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
