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The Or Foundation Co-Founder and Executive Director Liz Ricketts shares notes from our work supporting Kantamanto's kayayei (head porters) and the challenges they face carrying the burdens of waste in Atmos Magazine with photos from Al Fattah.
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Business Insider follows The Or Foundation and retailers in Kantamanto Market to document the reality of "clothing donations" and what the community in Accra is doing to clean up fashion's mess.
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France 5's Sur Le Front with Hugo Clément traces fashion's waste crisis around the world and follows Liz Ricketts from The Or Foundation through a day at work in Accra documenting fashion's waste and working with community members to clean it up.
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Globo in Brasil follows Sammy Oteng, No More Fast Fashion Lab and Community Engagement Manager for The Or Foundation, through Accra to examine the impact of fast fashion's waste as part of a larger segment on global clothing waste.
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Designer and Programs Manager with The Or Foundation, Chloe Asaam, discusses Kantamanto's secondhand clothing trade with fair fashion campaigner Venetia La Manna.
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WWD Features Design for Decomposition with The Or Foundation, The Biomimicry Institute, the University of Ghana and other grant partners working to reconsider the end of life for clothing.
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The Or Foundation Co-Founder and Executive Director Liz Ricketts speaks with Clare Press about Waste Colonialism, Dead White Man's Clothes and The Or Foundation's Work.
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Vogue Business explores secondhand clothing across the Continent of Africa with voices from The Or Foundation and Collaborators such as The Slum Studio in Ghana and Vintage or Violence in Uganda.
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The Or Foundation co-founder and Executive Director Liz Ricketts speaks with Amanda McCarty in a two part series deep-dive on Clothes Horse Podcast
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Vogue Business explores the growing resale trade, its impact on the global secondhand trade and The Or Foundation's call for solidarity.
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Vestiaire Collective starts global fund with donation to The Or Foundation in support of secondhand solidarity in Ghana.
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Sammy Oteng from The Or Foundation walks CBS Morning Show through Kantamanto and explains the impact of Secondhand Fast Fashion on Ghana.
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Joshua Odamtten from The Or Foundation speaks to DW news about the work on the ground at the No More Fast Fashion Lab in Accra to clean up fashion's waste crisis.
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ABC Austrialia Foreign Correspondent highlights The OR Foundation's Dead White Man's Clothes research and the situation of fashion's excess flowing through Kantamanto Market in Accra, Ghana.
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The Or Foundation Co-Founder and Executive Director Liz Ricketts writes about changing perceptions and the reality of waste colonialism in Atmos.
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Emily Stochl of Pre-Loved Podcast and Remake interviews members of the Kantamanto Community, Upcyclers and The Or Foundation Team as part of a two part series on Kantamanto.
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High Snobiety interviews Liz from The OR, Sammy from Otteng and Sel from The Slum Studio about what actually happens to your donated clothes.
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Fashion Denier with Shonagh Marshall Sits down for a conversation with The Or Foundation Co-Founder and Executive Director Liz Ricketts to explain the Dead White Man's Clothes Project and the work of The Or Foundation.
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ITV News works with The OR to highlight the waste crisis of secondhand clothing, featuring an interview with co-founder Liz Ricketts.
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No Kill Magazine highlights The OR's work with New York-based brand Collina Strada to transform wasted clothes from Kantamanto during a breakaway hit runway show at New York Fashion Week.
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W Magazine highlights the work that brand Collina Strada is doing to connect fashion to the earth and to "clean up our shit." Led by designer Hillary Taymour and collaborator Charlie Engman, Collina Strada incorporates clothing from Kantamanto and elements of The OR's research and on the ground initiatives into wearable designs and a colorful mission.
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Co-founder Liz Ricketts and artist, filmmaker and philanthropist Kuukua Eshun discuss secondhand clothing and the Osu beach cleanup with Good Morning Ghana.
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Co-founder Branson Skinner and core collaborator Mawuli Quist from De FortyFive speak with Valerie Danso from GBC24.
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The Or Foundation's co-founder and executive director Liz Ricketts shares insights about Kantamanto and the global secondhand trade on Recho Omondi's Cutting Room Floor
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Co-Founder Liz Ricketts shares about Dead White Man's Clothes on Fashion Revolution.
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In Accra, Ghana, imported second-hand clothing—or “dead white man’s clothes”—represents a massive industry with complex environmental, social, and economic implications.
Words by Liz Ricketts and J. Branson Skinner,
Photographs by Charlie Engman and Prince Gyasi
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Author Elizabeth Cline discusses Marie Kondo's unintended consequences with The OR co-founder Liz Ricketts for Slate.
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Bella from The Unwrapped Family in Switzerland asked great questions and we gave our best answers in this interview about our research on secondhand clothing in Ghana.
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Katya Moorman @honeyandhemp wrote about Dead White Man's Clothes, thrifting and what to do with your used clothes.
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