SMU’s Cairns Lab on textile waste
Learn how one lab on campus monitors textile waste through undergraduate and graduate research.
Tag: Fast Fashion
Fast Fashion Can Hurt the Environment
IN THIS SMU LOOK STYLE Report, Caroline McLaughlin takes us inside the world of fast fashion to show the environmental impact in Dallas. Take a look!
Fast Fashion: From Bangladesh to Boohoo
The dilemma of fast fashion
Rebuilding America’s founding industry: apparel manufacturing
A plain white cotton T-shirt retails at American Apparel for $24. A similar white V-neck constructed from modal and cotton retails at Forever 21 for a sixth of the price. The cost of this price disparity is made possible by outsourcing labor to factories that hire workers for pennies.