FAIR FASHION: What Is It Worth?

 

Text and photography by ©️Cherie Birkner

 

It’s the summer of 2015, I’m standing in the middle of Beacons Closet in Williamsburg NYC, with a silk designer blouse in my hand. The original tag (175,00$) is still hanging on it, but the price Beacons Closet sells it for is 16,99$. It’s not so far fetched to ask yourself, what is it really worth? Does worth at all have to do with the prices we pay? And how can we learn to appreciate clothes when they are displayed like this:

 

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Hi, I’m Cherie Birkner, I studied fashion design and also worked as a fashion designer. I know how to design a collection, make a