This weekend in downtown L.A., a group of worldwide experts on fashion sustainability will be in conversation with their California counterparts. Their goal is to help make a dent in an unsustainable fact: People around the world generate 92 million tons of textile waste each year.

“We see just so much waste that is extra clothing that is produced that is not needed,” said Dennita Sewell of Arizona State University Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (ASU FIDM). She’s one of the organizers of the conference scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. (It's free and open to the public.)

“Another issue is getting rid of things, how things are reused or disposed of when people are finished with them,” she said.

Awareness of the problem is leading to changes to the way clothes are desi

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