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Professor Emeritus Kate Rowold is a scholar of the social and aesthetic history of fashion. As a Professor in the fashion design program at Indiana University-Bloomington (1979-2019), Rowold directed dozens of graduate students, sponsored more than 60 Individualized Major Program fashion design students, and taught hundreds of undergraduate students studying fashion history and apparel merchandising. In her role as Curator of the Sage Collection of Fashion and Culture (1985-2017), Rowold curated...

We’re a bunch of wasters. Every year over 68,000 tonnes of textiles are discarded by households and commercial users as a result of a combination of faddish fast fashion, changing trends or people no longer needing the items.