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Buried in Style: Fashion’s Final Destination

Season 2 Episode 3 | 12m 03s

Fashion historian Clare Sauro and journalist John Bartlett trace the hidden costs of fast fashion. From cheap, short-lived trends to mountains of textile waste dumped in Chile’s Atacama Desert, they expose how global supply chains and impulsive shopping habits fuel an environmental crisis — and why what we wear says more about us than we think.

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