To contact Elizabeth Cline for an interview or media appearance, please email her at elizabeth.l.cline@gmail.com. If you need headshots of Elizabeth or photos of The Conscious Closet to run with your story, check the Google Drive folder first before reaching out for additional assets.
Unboxing Shein, ABC IMPACT X Nightline (2023)
A partial list of Elizabeth’s media interviews and appearances:
Jing Daily - “Seeking Status: Will Fast Fashion Retailer Shein’s Luxury-focused Strategy Work?” - April 2023
Yahoo / Fashionista - Fashion History Lesson: the Origins and Recent Strides of the U.S. Garment Labor Movement - March 2023
CBS News: “Fashion industry's carbon impact bigger than airline industry's” - April 2019
The LA Times: “H&M’s woes mean fast fashion is getting worse, not better” - April 2018
The Saturday Evening Post: “Ready-to-Waste: America’s Clothing Crisis” - January 2018
CBS News Online: “Is the fast fashion industry ready to change its wasteful ways?” - November 2015
NPR.org - What Happens When Fashion Becomes Fast, Disposable And Cheap? - April 2016
Mother Jones: “How to Dress Well—Without Ever Buying a Single Piece of Clothing” - December 2016
Politico: “Elizabeth Cline’s cure for throwaway fashion: ‘slow clothes’ - June 2012
Fashionista: “Overdressed's Author Gives Us 8 Tips on How To Avoid the Fast Fashion Frenzy and Still Not Spend a Ton on Clothes” - July 2012
Nylon: “What Happens When You Donate Your Clothes—And Why It’s Bad” - February 2018
TV, DOCUMENTARY & VIDEO
ABC News Nightline X Impact: Unboxing Shein, a Hulu Original Series - November 2023
NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt (TV interview) - May 2019
CGTN Global Business “Rise of Resale Shopping” (TV interview) - May 2019
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (Video Segment) - April 2015
CBC News Marketplace: “How fast fashion adds to the world's clothing waste problem” (Video) - January 2018
NBC Nightly News (TV)
Freightened: The Real Price of Shipping (Documentary Interview) - April 2016
The New York Times: The Price of Fast Fashion (Video) - May 2013
MSNBC Jansing & Co.: “Search ends for Bangladesh garment factory workers, death toll at 1,127” (TV) - May 2013
Alex James: Slowing Down Fast Fashion (Documentary Interview) - 2016
Podcasts & Radio
[Podcast] Vox Explain It To Me | In the Weeds: “The Devil Wears Fast Fashion” - November 2023
[Podcast] Marketplaces’s How We Survive by Kai Ryssdal: “Burning Questions - Can I be fashionable without hurting the planet” - September 2023
[Podcast] More or Less: Behind the Stats: “Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans” - July 2023
[Podcast] Conscious Style Podcast: “The Role of Fashion Legislation” - March 2023
[Podcast] Crash Course Fashion: “How to increase data literacy to increase informed sustainability decisions” - November 2021
[Podcast]The Good Dirt: Sustainability Explained: “The Role of Activism in the Fashion Revolution” - April 2021
[Podcast] StyleZeitgesit: “Sustainability? With Elizabeth Cline” - October 2020
[Podcast]Remember Who Made Them: “Consumer Activism Can Change the Fashion Industry” - December 2020
[Radio] NPR: All Things Considered: “Can Fast Fashion And Sustainability Be Stitched Together?” - July 2019
[Podcast] Conscious Chatter: Elizabeth Cline - October 2019
[Podcast] Forever 35: “Sustainable Style With Elizabeth Cline” - October 2019
[Radio] WNYC’s Brian Lehrer: Ten-Minute Explainer: Fast Fashion - 2019
[Podcast] Outside/In Podcast New Hampshire Public Radio: Pants on Fire - 2019
[Radio] KUER RadioWest w/ Doug Fabrizio: “Overdressed” - May 2017
[Radio] All Things Considered NPR: “In Trendy World Of Fast Fashion, Styles Aren't Made To Last” - March 2012
[Radio] Fresh Air with Terry Gross / NPR: “Ethical Fashion: Is The Tragedy In Bangladesh A Final Straw?” - May 2013
[Radio] The Leonard Lopate Show WNYC: “Ethics in Fashion” - September 2013
[Radio] On Point / NPR: The High Cost of Cheap Fashion - 2012
[Radio] The Brian Lehrer Show WNYC: “Rag Trade” - June 2012
[Podcast] Conscious Chatter: “Waste” - March 2013
[Podcast] The Bat Segundo Show - June 2012
[Podcast] Donna Moderna (Italian)