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Tag: ethical fashion

Transitioning to a Remote Semester Abroad

April 21, 2020 Leave a comment
Alice in Paris

Hello everyone! I’m back with another final blog post about my experiences this semester and how they’ve related to my research for the GEO. I hope you are all safe, well, and coping. Thanks for clicking, and happy reading!- AJ x My junior year abroad has been among the best of my life, but it hasn’t always been an easy

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  • Sustainability Fellow: Alice in Paris, France

A Photo Exploration of Fast and Secondhand Fashion in Paris

November 19, 2019 Leave a comment
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  • Sustainability Fellow: Alice in Paris, France
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Привет, et salut tout le monde!

September 16, 2019 Leave a comment

My name’s Alice and I’m a French and Russian major in the class of 2021. I’m an international student at Amherst, and I come from the lovely North-East of England where you can always find a welcome lot warmer than our very changeable weather! In fact, as the stereotype goes, we hardy northerners love to dress up, and are so

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February 3, 2025 ccolleton@amherst.edu Leave a comment

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By Kate Becker ’26 Amid towering poplar trees, locals and tourists drink beers, listen to music, and zip by on bikes along a winding path. Mothers push baby strollers. Elementary students join a scavenger hunt. Sunbathers enjoy the last rays on flower-covered fields. Beneath them, thousands of Danes lie buried. Among them is philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels

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