If there are three pressing issues in both the academic study and public debate around fashion at the present moment, they are sustainability, inequality, and cultural appropriation. It is hard to remember a time when issues of academic concern and public debate were so aligned in the field of fashion. From the vantage point of the middle of 2020, environmental collapse, global pandemic, unemployment, and the Black Lives This article has been corrected with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article.
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