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Fashion Forward

Aditi Mayer is a sustainable-fashion blogger, photojournalist, labor-rights activist, and speaker. Next year, as a National Geographic Storytelling Fellow, she will report on the social and environmental effects of India’s fashion supply chain. We asked her to pose five questions about the future of fashion in a rapidly changing world.

The sustainability movement often poses the question, “What is the most eco-friendly [fill in the blank]?” But sustainability requires

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