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A $2,000 Handmade Sweater Reveals Fashion’s True Cost
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August 29, 2026
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7:26Now PlayingContent creator Macy Gilliam spent 90-hours over four months and about $2,000 making a sweater from scratch, starting with wool from a sheep at New York City’s Queens County Farm Museum. Gilliam joins Christina Ruffini on Bloomberg This Weekend where she explains that the project gave her a new appreciation for the labor behind clothing and raised questions about transparency, quality and ethics across fashion’s complex supply chains.
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