My brand-new denim jacket arrived smelling like garbage. It turns out that this is a bigger issue caused by an environmentally harmful sulfur-based dying process. The result is that people are throwing out unworn clothes.

Slaxx, a Canadian campy horror comedy directed by Elza Kephart, slashes through the layers of worker exploitation that bely a nefarious “sustainable” fash fashion company.

A fashion industry professional reflects on her experience of meeting maximal expectations with minimal resources and how this erodes the quality of our garments. What if we didn’t accept exhausting work conditions that dull our ethics and inure us to unsustainable business practices?

Mite bites and fruit flies were the last straw for a cosmetics counter manager at a small department store in Berkley, Calif. This is what she did about it.