These smudge marks show exactly where human hands touched your clothes while making them

Clothes don’t make themselves. Robots can cut, print, or dye fabrics, but they still can’t sew as well as humans, which means that every garment in your wardrobe was sewn by a pair of hands pinching and pushing a piece of fabric through a sewing machine. The problem is: how often do you think about that? Juliet Seger is a Berlin-based tailor, clothing engineer, and designer. She thinks that fast fashion and its globalized supply chain have desensitized us to the exploitation of labor...