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Op-Ed | Li Edelkoort’s Antidote to Fashion’s ‘Speed and Greed’

Design education needs a radical overhaul, argues trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort.
A woman attaches price tickets to 'fast fashion' skirts at a factory.
A woman attaches price tickets to 'fast fashion' skirts at a factory. (Getty Images)
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  • Lidewij Edelkoort

Now that speed and greed have deflated and devalued the significance of fashion and textiles, the world needs a complete overhaul of its educational systems in design. The current costs of overproduction and needless, senseless business as usual have to stop when climate crisis restrictions will become law and when young generations refuse to give in to conspicuous consumption.

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