Growing concerns about fast fashion have led some to rethink how they handle damaged clothing.

This story was originally published on May 22, 2023, and has been updated. When Arounna Khounnoraj was growing up, her mother, a seamstress, made and mended Khounnoraj's clothes. She would try to make ...

This week, as we near the end of 2025, the writers and editors of KQED Arts & Culture are reflecting on One Beautiful Thing from the year. ou’re entering your homemaker era,” my mother said earlier ...

UK fashion industry bigger source of carbon emissions than aviation and shipping A penny on every shirt, skirt and stocking could fund better recycling and repairing in the fashion industry, according ...

One dusty family photo album in my attic holds black-and-white snapshots of my mother and grandmother darning their socks in the early 1950s. My mother told me they’d stuff the socks with burned-out ...