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.
A partial list of Elizabeth’s media interviews and appearances:
Print & ONLINE
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
BOOK REVIEWS
The New York Times Book Review: ‘Overdressed:’ “Attention Shoppers” - April 2013
Wall Street Journal: Book Review: “Overdressed” - April 2012
Bloomberg Newsweek: Book Review: 'Overdressed,' by Elizabeth L. Cline - June 2012
Bitch Magazine Review: ‘Overdressed’ - 2012
Paste Magazine: ‘Overdressed’ - 2012
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
[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)