Rebroadcast: How fast fashion and social media fuel a high consumption, low quality world
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Fast fashion retailers like Shein sell t-shirts for less than $5 apiece. This business model, along with social media, fuels an erosion in the quality of clothing at every level. What price are we really paying for super-affordable fashion? Danielle Vermeer and Mandy Lee join Meghna Chakrabarti.
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| 0:00.0 | Funding for this podcast comes from Math Works, creators of Mat Lab and Simulink software, |
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| 0:11.0 | This Valentine's Day, |
| 0:13.4 | discover the decade-spanning love story. |
| 0:16.0 | It's one of the great cosmic mysteries. |
| 0:18.0 | How is that someone can go from being a total stranger |
| 0:21.0 | to being the most important person in your life. |
| 0:24.4 | Based on the global bestseller. |
| 0:26.4 | I'd have a crush on you. |
| 0:27.8 | So what happened to it? |
| 0:28.8 | It's a crush. |
| 0:29.8 | One day out now on Netflix. |
| 0:38.0 | This is on point. I'm Magna Chakrabardi. Okay, my shean package just came in. |
| 0:41.0 | So I'm going to take the only thing I got. I got a lot of stuff. |
| 0:46.2 | This is Tik-Tock user Lili Gabriel in a video from February of 2022. She's sitting on a bedroom |
| 0:52.2 | floor with a box she bought from the ultra fast fashion |
| 0:55.2 | website she is. She's holding each item up to the camera one by one. |
| 0:59.6 | This is a leather oversized jacket. |
| 1:03.3 | Smells like fish. |
| 1:04.5 | We love Sheein. |
| 1:06.4 | Then I got this satin blue button up shirt |
| 1:10.0 | that I'm gonna wear off the shoulder. |
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