Reading this book was like willfully surrendering my head to someone screaming loudly into my ear for a few hours about topics I already knew.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Additionally, they explore what happens to garments at the end of their life cycle, often finding their way to places like the Kantamanto market. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here. Capitalism requires a certain amount of exploitation to be feasible and it's done this by tapping into existing structures of colonialism.Aja Barber has written an eloquent manifesto with a focus on fast fashion on how corporations see the public as consumers and their enormous greed.

I love that it’s written in a conversational way, like we’re talking to each other and having a discussion.Barber fearlessly explores her perspective on significant issues such as colonialism, cultural appropriation, privilege, discrimination, and overconsumption. The information here is not informative, opinion is treated as fact, and I would be generally wary of any author or editor who doesn’t see a problem with providing no evidence to any of the claims made throughout the novel. The fashion industry has pulled the wool over our eyes but with this book Aja rips it off, finds out who made it, pays them back and then convinces you to join her in holding the industry accountable.

She presents the reader with a reality check, pointing that all have a role in the system, but with a good dose of compassion. On the bright side, this extended rant has inspired me to seek out other books on consumerism, colonialism, and the climate crisis, and to check out the work of the many activists mentioned throughout. There was a lot here that I feel like I was exposed to in terms of the impact of fast fashion, but this was pretty comprehensive, very well articulated, accessible, and I absolutely loved how Barber kept tying everything back to Colonialism.as someone who’s been plant-based for nearly 6 years for sustainability reasons, i am a strong believer in the combination of individual choices + collective action! These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. But this book is little more than a strident collection of facts and examples that I was already very familiar with. Barber articulate her thoughts past the anger and build a narrative aimed at understanding behavior and advocating for change. If you are aged between 13 and 16 years of age and are just learning about the unjust systems of wealth inequality, colonialism and the extractive and harmful practices of consumerism fuelled by late capitalism please you’re the audience I would recommend this book for.