

In 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Cline turned her expertise towards strategic organizing and campaigning for labor rights in fashion, working independently on strategy for the landmark #PayUp campaign, which won back $22 billion for garment workers and factories during the early months of the crisis. In it, Cline delves into fresh research on fashion’s impacts and illustrates how consumers and fashion lovers can leverage our everyday choices to transform the apparel industry and change the world for the better.

Cline’s much-anticipated follow-up book, The Conscious Closet: A Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good, was published in August of 2019 by Penguin Random House.

Overdressedis read around the world in seven languages and included on the curriculum of numerous leading universities. Cline’s critically acclaimed 2012 expose, Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, was first to reveal the impacts of fast fashion on the environment, economy, and society and is a founding text of the modern global ethical and sustainable fashion movement. Cline is a New York-based author, journalist, public speaker, and expert on consumer culture, fast fashion, sustainability, and labor rights in the apparel industry. You can peruse some recent interviews here.Įlizabeth L. Please contact Elizabeth (elizabeth.l.cline AT ) to set up an interview.
