An installation currently on display at the Mall of Arabia in Cairo, Egypt, gives visitors a sense of the amount of clothes they typically buy, and potentially throw away, over the course of a lifetime. The brainchild of designer Laura Franois, who works in the realm of sustainable and ethical fashion, and photographer/videographer Ben Von Wong, the "Tallest Closet in the World" is a towering structure holding 3,000 items of clothing--- what the project team roughly estimated to be the number of garments used by the average person in the developed world over the course of a lifetime. The project's goal, they say, is to offer a tangible experience that drives home the ...
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