Is Circular Fashion Overestimating Its Impact?

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⏰Episode Summary

• I’m headed back to the Brimfield Flea Market in May!

• Star-studded celebrity auctions including vintage fashions worn by Marilyn Monroe, Britney Spears, and Cher, and from the personal archives of Bob Mackie and Tommy Hilfiger.

• The first-ever National Vintage Store Day, coming May 17th!

• Vintage-nostalgia campaigns at Paris Fashion Week

• Nuuly becomes the first fashion rental business to reach profitability

• WRAP finds a 64.6% resale displacement rate at eBay, Vestiaire Collective, and Depop.

• An update on fire relief efforts at Kantamanto Market in Accra, Ghana

Nuuly’s 600,000-square-foot laundry and distribution facility in Kansas City, Missouri

Kantamanto market photographed by Julius Tornyi for The Or Foundation

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