{"id":12979,"date":"2024-03-15T09:22:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T09:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=12979"},"modified":"2024-03-15T09:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T09:23:20","slug":"fast-fashion-wendy-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/fast-fashion-wendy-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast fashion: PhD Candidate Wendy Ward writes for The Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wendy Ward, PhD candidate in Art & Design, has written a piece for The Conversation on ways our wardrobe could help us avoid fast fashion.<\/a><\/p>\n

Wendy says: “Caring about what\u2019s inside your wardrobe, while resisting the urge to buy more clothes, might be more fun than you think.”<\/p>\n

Read another Blog post by Wendy here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Wendy Ward is a PhD candidate at\u00a0Sheffield Hallam University<\/a>\u00a0in Art & Design researching sustainability in fashion through the lens of people\u2019s relationships with their clothes, and the potential for using these relationships to lengthen the time that people keep their clothes.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wendy Ward, PhD candidate in Art & Design, has written a piece for The Conversation on ways our wardrobe could help us avoid fast fashion. Wendy says: “Caring about what\u2019s inside your wardrobe, while resisting the urge to buy more clothes, might be more fun than you think.” Read another Blog post by Wendy here. 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