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Feb 2022
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What Next TBD: The Rise of a Fast Fashio...

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In just a few short years, the Chinese fast fashion company Shein upended the way countless young women shop online. It’s approach could soon shape the way everyone else shops, too. 


Guest: Louise Matsakis, freelance technology reporter


Host: Lizzie O’Leary

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