
Cost Per Wear: The Slow Fashion Math That Survives a Spreadsheet
A $400 coat worn 200 times beats a $60 coat worn six — the calculation, its honest limitations, and the wardrobe rules it produces.
Sustainability is the magazine's spine: slow fashion, repair and alteration, traceability through the supply chain, and greenwashing checked against certification and volume rather than taken on tone.

A $400 coat worn 200 times beats a $60 coat worn six — the calculation, its honest limitations, and the wardrobe rules it produces.

Brand take-back schemes promise a second life for returned goods — the record, including a destroyed-goods scandal, shows what separates real circularity from marketing.

A rental garment must replace several new purchases to break even environmentally — here is where the model wins, where it backfires, and how to use it well.

A resale purchase avoids new production entirely, but its green arithmetic only holds if the alternative was a new bag, not a smaller closet.

EU right-to-repair rules, lifetime repair services and a shrinking new-goods market are turning mending from a hobby into an industry — here is how it works.

Beyond organic: how regenerative farming rebuilds soil carbon, which certifications verify it, and how to tell a supply chain from a press release.