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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Brooke Knappenberger

How Can Mentorship Impact Sustainability in Fashion?

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Climate activist Saad Amer asks: "If fashion is about expression, what does it mean when our clothes are polluting rivers, deforesting forests, ruining the atmosphere, emitting carbon, and being made by women of color enslaved abroad?" 

It means we have a lot more work to do. And we're going to need everyone to pitch in. Fashion accounts for up to 10 percent of global carbon dioxide output and a fifth of the 300 million tons of plastic produced globally each year, per Bloomberg. Could mentorship provide the solution?

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