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Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses the intersection of the sharing economy and fashion

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Excerpt from Business of Fashion -- "Clothing and accessories often have high value but low usage — characteristics of other items that have proved popular in sharing consumption models, explains Arun Sundararajan, a professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business. 'It’s quite common to have clothing that costs three figures or four figures,' he says, many of which are bought and worn only occasionally. In the US alone, over $8 billion worth of clothing sits in closets, unworn, according to a report by online thrift store ThredUp."

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