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How SHEIN Took Over Fast Fashion w/ Nicole Lipman
Paris Marx is joined by Nicole Lipman to discuss SHEIN’s rise to the top of the fast fashion industry and how it exacerbates the sector’s labor and environment problems.
Nicole Lipman is a writer and assistant editor at n+1.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Nicole did a deep dive into SHEIN and how it operates for n+1.
- Paris wrote about the Shut Down Shein campaign.
- Amazon benefits immensely from the US de minimis rule.
- Ten years after the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh, many problems remain.