Former 'InStyle' and Teen Vogue editor Alyssa Hardy spares no detail in her new book that reveals the dark underbelly of our current clothing binge.
— is a fashion lover, first and foremost. She writes about the business with a glow that only true, unadulterated adoration makes possible. Which is what makes fashion's secretive, horrific labor and marketing practices so difficult for her to swallow.
Much has changed in fashion since then, namely the ways in which we buy clothes. We've gotten more hungry for all that's shiny and new, and that continues to wreak dangerous havoc on the marginalized communities tasked with making more, more, more by the minute. This is wherecomes in: The book reveals all the many ways the fashion industry works to actively cover up and perpetuate climate change and labor justice.
was like, 'Yeah, sounds great.' It was a perfect place for me to write those kinds of stories. But eventually, I wanted to get more in depth, but I wasn't being given the resources to do that. So I started toying around with this question of, 'How do I get the resources to research this more?' I had talked to another fashion editor friend and she was like, 'Well, I'm writing a memoir and I have a great agent.' So, I spoke with her, and started writing a proposal.
You went into writing this book already being knowledgeable about the topic, but I imagine there were still elements of your research that surprised you. I, for one, was shocked to read about thein Indonesia unknowingly working with carcinogenic materials. What's something new you learned about the fashion industry during this process?
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