The simple solution to fast fashion | Josephine Philips

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🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Your favorite pair of jeans -- the ones you refuse to throw out -- are actually a part of a global climate solution, says fashion entrepreneur Josephine Philips. When you value your existing clothes instead of chasing the latest trends, you help reduce waste and protect our planet for generations to come. Learn more about the impacts of what you wear -- and the incredible power of repairing your clothes.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	You're listening to Ted Talks daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:14.0	Fast fashion means buying way too much and throwing away our clothes often without
0:19.0	thinking twice.
0:20.6	This is unsustainable.
0:23.0	In her talk from the Ted Countdown Summit in 2023, sustainable fashion entrepreneur Josephine
0:28.8	Phillips puts fashion waste in perspective and offers answers to address this global problem
0:35.9	after a break.
0:39.7	I'd like to take you all back to the late 1950s in Sierra Leone.
0:44.9	My 93-year-old grandmother is about my age.
0:48.6	She lives in free town, it is hot and she is beautiful.
0:53.5	She goes to a market one day and she buys a yellow dress.
0:57.5	She has stripes down it and an orange tie attached to the collar.
1:01.0	It is also beautiful.
1:03.0	My grandmother is married to my grandfather Harry and this dress is the favourite of all
1:09.2	her dresses because it's shorter than the rest, meaning he gets to see more of her legs.
1:14.6	She wears it a lot for herself and for him and she brings it with her in the 1960s when
1:18.4	she comes to England.
1:20.4	Flash forward six decades and I'm sitting with her in her room in the summer of 2018 and
1:26.2	she gives this dress to me, entrusting me with its 60-year-long story and in doing so,
1:33.0	she teaches me an unshakable lesson about what it means to truly value what we own.
1:39.8	That lesson meant everything to me, it meant everything when I went to work at a second-hand
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