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UK designer rejects ‘fast fashion’ to protect planet

By Caroline TAÏX Driven by a passion to protect the planet, Phoebe English hasn’t bought a centimetre of fabric or a single plastic button for her collection at London Fashion Week. The fashion industry is one of the most polluting, accounting for up to 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, according to World Bank estimates. “Fast fashion”, where clothes are bought for a few dollars and then discarded after a few wears, leads to a […]