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Episode: TANSY E. HOSKINS - Author of "The Anti-Capitalist Book Of Fashionβ - Freelance Fashion & Beauty Writer Award Winner
Description: βI definitely believe at the moment that fashion brands, big fashion in particular, they just exist to exploit people. It's an excuse to exploit the poor, basically. I see fashion as part of this very extractive global economic society where 100, 150 years ago, that extraction was very obvious. You had the enslavement of people. You had taxation. You had literally armies turning up and occupying the land that they wanted and just taking resources or land. These days it's more subtle, but the brands are still following those colonial pathways.I'm like sat here in London and, you kn...