Fast Fashion and Sustainability: Exploring Environmental Justice in West Africa

What can fashion teach us about sustainability, culture, and justice?

?Join Grace Toléqué??"Stanford lecturer, researcher, and fashion designer??"for a compelling look at fashion, environmental justice, and sustainability in West Africa.

?Drawing on West African sartorial traditions, this lecture explores how custom-made clothing, reuse, and women-led cultural practices have long embodied principles of sustainability. Against this backdrop, we’ll examine the growing influx of second-hand clothing flooding West African markets??"and what it reveals about Western consumerism, textile waste, and environmental inequality.

?From local responses to emerging grassroots initiatives, this talk asks what sustainability really looks like on the ground??"and who bears the cost when fashion moves too fast.