Overdressed
is the fashion world’s answer to consumer-activist bestsellers like Michael
Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma.
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第二段
This
top-down conception of the fashion business couldn’t be more out of date or at
odds with the feverish world
described in Overdressed, Eliazabeth Cline’s three-year indictment of “fast
fashion”.
In the last decade or so
,advances in technology have allowed mass-market labels such as Zara ,H&M,
and Uniqlo to react to trends more quickly and anticipate demand more
precisely.
Quicker turnarounds mean
less wasted inventory, more frequent release, and more profit.
These labels encourage
style-conscious consumers to see clothes as disposable-meant to last only a
wash or two, although they don’t advertise that –and to renew their wardrobe
every few weeks.
△By
offering on-trend items at dirt-cheap prices, Cline argues, these brands have
hijacked fashion cycles, shaking an industry (long accustomed to a seasonal pace).
第四段
The victims of this
revolution , of course ,are not limited to designers.
For H&M to offer a
$5.95 knit miniskirt in all its 2,300-pius stores around the world, it must
rely on low-wage overseas labor, order in volumes that strain natural
resources, and use massive amounts of harmful chemicals.
Overdressed
is the fashion world’s answer to consumer-activist bestsellers like Michael
Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma.
“Mass-produced clothing
,like fast food, fills a hunger and need, yet is non-durable and wasteful,”
Cline argues.
Americans, she finds, buy
roughly 20 billion garments a year – about 64 items per person – and no matter
how much they give away, this excess leads to waste.
第五段
Towards the end of
Overdressed, Cline introduced her ideal, a Brooklyn woman named Sarah Kate
Beaumont, who since 2008 has made all of her own clothes – and beautifully.
But as Cline is the first
to note, it took Beaumont decades to perfect her craft; her example can’t be
knocked off.