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Do peer-to-peer shopping sites perpetuate the Fast Fashion industry?

Do peer-to-peer shopping sites perpetuate the Fast Fashion industry?

Olivia Stringer asks whether online platforms for selling second hand clothes are encouraging a wear-once mindset
Treat Yourself: Self-Care in a Capitalist World

Treat Yourself: Self-Care in a Capitalist World

Has our capitalist society capitalised on the self-care trend too much?
For the love of money

For the love of money

Sophia Ashby delves into the history of Valentine’s Day, because all relationships have complicated pasts.
Capitalising on spiritual vulnerability

Capitalising on spiritual vulnerability

As with everything, spirituality is not immune from fashion trends. This year, there has been a sharp increase in the selling of books, films, and wearable items centred around witchcraft

Consumerism: always on the rise

From politics to the holiday season, globalisation and consumerism have given celebrity culture too much control over our lives

Have we reached peak ‘stuff’?

With the decline of materialism is our spending moving towards other services that makes us happy?

Frida Kahlo and the rebel commodity

Does consumer capitalism and modern feminism appropriate its icons wrongly? Madeleine Jones casts a critical eye over the use of Frida Kahlo merely as a fashionable image