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A $2,000 Sweater Reveals Fashion’s True Cost

Content creator Macy Gilliam spent 90-hours over four months and about $2,000 making a sweater from scratch, starting with wool from a sheep at New York City’s Queens County Farm Museum. Gilliam joins Christina Ruffini on Bloomberg This Weekend where…

This article was originally published by Bloomberg Markets and is republished here under license.

Content creator Macy Gilliam spent 90-hours over four months and about $2,000 making a sweater from scratch, starting with wool from a sheep at New York City’s Queens County Farm Museum. Gilliam joins Christina Ruffini on Bloomberg This Weekend where she explains that the project gave her a new appreciation for the labor behind clothing and raised questions about transparency, quality and ethics across fashion’s complex supply chains. (Source: Bloomberg)

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