Hello everyone and welcome to the Psych Legal Pop podcast.

This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist.

I'm Brooke Brigham, I'm the attorney.

And I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist.

Today we are going to be talking about a documentary called Brandy Hellville and the cults of vast fashion.

And if you don't know, Brandy Melville is a very popular brand of clothing for teens, basically.

I don't know anyone over the age of 20, really, I think, wears some.

Brandy Melville.

But anyway, it talks about this company, the rise of it and how it grew, But it also has to do with fast fashion.

And they kind of interweave that throughout the documentary.

But what we're going to do is we're going to talk about Brandy Melville, the whole concept first.

And then we'll talk about fast fashion because Brandy Melville is a fast fashion brand you know just like forever 21

h&M h nm zara scene all these things were basically you can get a shirt for 20 bucks

and you know wear it a few times and then give it to goodwill and think you're doing something good.

Yeah.

That's really not.

That's really not the case.

So, and the fashion industry has always, always had a lot of issues with labor, you know, using child labor, slave labor.

That's how they can make these things so cheap.

And the after effects of it is it's polluting our planet.

Yes.

So we'll talk about that in the second half.

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