Polyester, It’s Everywhere
Cheap, durable and lightweight? Sounds enticing to wear all over our bodies. Oh polyester, how you’ve taken over the fast fashion industry with ease. While…
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Threads of Greed
Fast fashion is not just an industry—it’s an empire built on exploitation, environmental devastation and the illusion of affordability. Beginning in the 1970s, fast fashion…
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A Pretty Little Rebrand
They’re calling it the rebrand of the century. The rebrand no one asked for. UK-based fast fashion brand PrettyLittleThing (PLT) has undergone a full makeover….
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Where Fashion Meets a Healthier Lifestyle
This summer, TikTok saw the rise of a style that perfectly aligned with the ‘clean girl’ aesthetic. With everyone loving this aesthetic and trying to…
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The Best Brands you don’t know
Worried that when you walk into the bar you’ll be wearing the same thing as everyone else? Unfortunately, you’re not alone. The world of fashion…
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The Devil Wears Prada Theory: You Are What You Wear.
In the iconic 2006 movie, “The Devil Wears Prada,” Andy Sachs (Anne Hathway) gets a job as an assistant at Runway, a magazine that is…
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Deinfluencing Beauty
Sometimes you see that new product and you have to have it. Social media makes it seem that if you buy that $40 cleanser or…
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Online Thrifting — The New Wave
The leaves are beginning to turn and the scent of pumpkin spice is filling the crisp autumn air. Fall is just around the corner, and…
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99 Problems But Is Fast Fashion One?
Our modern-day culture is all about that perfect outfit to get featured in an Instagram post. The lifestyle lived today is almost impossible to keep…
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Instagram Accounts Your Everyday Feed Needs: How and Why You Should Stay Informed
The glam, glitz and fashion that the realm of social media provides users, cause us to become very consumed in the idealistic lives of large…
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Fast Fashion is Slowing Down
Fast fashion as we know it has revolutionized the fashion industry. This change has not been entirely positive, however, as it has negatively impacted our world socially and environmentally.
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Striving Toward Sustainable Shopping
As a college student with low funds, it can be easy to fall into the trap of choosing quantity over quality, but VALLEY has a few tips for some fast fashion fixes.
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Meet VALLEY’s Fall 2018 Section Opener: Michelle Mischler
Passion is Michelle Mischler’s defining quality; it’s something I have seen radiate from her earnest gaze. Her demeanor translates through all that she involves herself…
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The High Price of Fast Fashion Steals
The weekend is approaching and you realize you have nothing worthy of wearing for Saturday night. You rush to the Forever 21 and grab the…
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