ep. 71: How to Take Fashion Seriously
One-woman trash-smashing machine Jessica Schreiber, the founder of Fabscrap
Before Marie Kondo-ing your closet, consider this: The average American throws away 80 pounds of clothes each year, and only a fifth of what's donated survives secondhand. Unladylike producer Sam Lee takes Cristen and Caroline along on her mission to purge her own fast-fashion habits and find out how so many garments become garbage, meeting a one-woman textile sustainability machine along the way.
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