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Sep 2021
36m 21s

Sustainable Fashion

Bbc Radio Ulster
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Genia Mineeva, Lucinda Graham, and Valerie Goode unpack the world of sustainable fashion. If you want to be sustainable where do you start? Just how complicated is it? Does the responsibility lie with the brands themselves, the CEO's, designers, social media or us the consumer?

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