Today’s pollution? Tomorrow’s diamonds! This is the essence of the fashion mindset, present in all kinds of situations in the daily lives of the industry’s insiders. moreFollowing their trajectories from fashion school to employment – and everything in between – this publication emerged from some of their commentaries, overheard behind the scenes. Expressed in often overlapping private and professional settings, they reveal scenarios unique to fashion life. While its off-the-record social exchanges have always been entertaining and revelatory, the time of the pandemic provides space and time for a newly found distance to and evaluation of the industry’s inner workings.