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4 stories for“secondhand clothing”

Secondhand Fashion Has Become a Style Signal, Not a Compromise

Preowned clothing is moving into the center of fashion as shoppers pursue value, individuality and access while brands reconsider their resale strategies.

Jul 31, 2026

Fashion

Fashion Brands Spent Years Fighting Resale. Now They Want to Run It

Secondhand is a 393 billion dollar market and roughly a tenth of all money spent on clothing. Zara, H&M, Levi's and others are building their own platforms to capture a trade they used to ignore.

Aug 17, 2026

Fashion

Sustainable fashion: progress report on a promise

After years of greenwashing, the secondhand market is growing 11x faster than retail. Real progress on sustainability exists, but the scale of waste remains sobering.

Sep 15, 2025

Fashion

Fifteen Million Garments a Week Arrive in Ghana, and Forty Per Cent of the Country's Clothing Imports Become Waste

The donation bin is the end of the story for the person using it and the beginning of a long one for everybody else. What happens next is a functioning trade, a genuine livelihood, and a waste problem nobody exports a solution for.

Aug 20, 2026