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Would You Stop Shopping?

A small but growing number of people are pledging to radically reduce the number of new fashion products they buy. But a deeply entrenched culture of consumerism makes it hard for many to stop shopping.
A group of women walk down a busy shopping street carrying large yellow Selfridges bags.
A small, but growing niche of consumers are pledging to buy fewer or no new clothes, but the number of people actually changing the way they shop remains small. (Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Last December, Tiffanie Darke took an inventory of all the clothes she’d brought over the course of 2022.

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Sarah Kent is Chief Sustainability Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. She is based in London and drives BoF's coverage of critical environmental and labour issues.

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