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Fashionopolis

Feb 11, 2021
Fashion Is "Fashionopolis: The Price Of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes"
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The Journalist and Best Selling Author, Dana Thomas was part of the opening speeches of the digital summit on February 2021. She brought up a discussion on Fashionopolis, her latest book. Thomas displayed to the audience that we all live in a connected system, in which an understanding of how it works is a must to make the changes necessary to drive the industry forward. With transparency, the author highlighted several problems that the fashion industry suffers and reinforced that we need action to effectively change this scenario.

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Dana Thomas
Dana Thomas
Journalist & New York Times Best Selling Author

DANA THOMAS is the author of Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes, Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, and the New York Times bestseller Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, all published by Penguin Press. She began her career writing for the Style section of The Washington Post, and for fifteen years she served as a cultural and fashion correspondent for Newsweek in Paris. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Style section and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and Architectural Digest. In 1987, she received the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation’s Ellis Haller Award for Outstanding Achievement in Journalism. In 2016, the French Minister of Culture named Thomas a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. She lives in Paris.

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