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In our current fashion climate, it feels like we’re entrenched in a gale-force storm of trends and information, not to mention the vast ecological disaster resulting from the fast-fashion industry. Globally, the fast fashion industry produces around 92 million tonnes of textile waste per year. But there’s one teen in South East London holding up an umbrella to this textile tempest: My good friend, Flora Macfarlane. 

In India, I watched my grandmother reuse glass jars, mend clothes until they were threadbare, and compost food scraps without ever calling it ‘sustainability.’ In the UAE, I saw consumption at its peak, with towering malls and fast fashion stores promising endless novelty. And in London, I’ve seen both the urgency of climate action and the energy of young people working collectively to make change.

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