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Marc Bain

Marc is Quartz's fashion reporter. His background includes time spent working for a designer menswear label, a turn as the literature editor at SparkNotes, and years as a general-assignment reporter at Newsweek. He covers...

ONE WORD: PLASTICS

Adidas’s zero-waste sneaker is a simple idea that took years to execute

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MADE TO BE REMADE

Adidas unveiled a shoe that can be ground up and made into a new sneaker

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Notre Dame cathedral is pictured from the top of the Montparnasse tower, Tuesday April 16, 2019 in Paris. Firefighters declared success Tuesday morning in an over 12-hour battle to extinguish an inferno engulfing Paris' iconic Notre Dame cathedral that claimed its spire and roof, but spared its bell towers. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

THE WORK BEGINS

A running list of donations to rebuild Notre Dame, from luxury corporations to oil companies

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Designer Virgil Abloh appears at the end of his Fall/Winter 2019-2020 collection show for fashion house Louis Vuitton during Men's Fashion Week in Paris, France, January 17, 2019. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes - RC197FC439A0

BRAND MANAGER

Virgil Abloh’s real value to Louis Vuitton isn’t about the clothes he can sell

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Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos laughs as he talks to the media while touring the new Amazon Spheres during the grand opening at Amazon's Seattle headquarters in Seattle, Washington, U.S., January 29, 2018. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson - RC1DD03FA240

REAR GUARD

Jeff Bezos says third-party sellers on Amazon are “kicking our butt”

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Models wear creations as part of Dries van Noten Men's Spring-Summer 2019 fashion collection presented in Paris, Thursday, June 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

WAVE OF JUBILATION

The story behind the Dries Van Noten prints celebrities from Beyoncé to Diplo are wearing

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Concertgoers attend the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, U.S., April 13, 2018. Picture taken April 13, 2018. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni - RC1E317AE810

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Marc Bain

Adidas’s zero-waste sneaker is a simple idea that took years to execute

Adidas unveiled a shoe that can be ground up and made into a new sneaker

A running list of donations to rebuild Notre Dame, from luxury corporations to oil companies

Virgil Abloh’s real value to Louis Vuitton isn’t about the clothes he can sell

Jeff Bezos says third-party sellers on Amazon are “kicking our butt”

The story behind the Dries Van Noten prints celebrities from Beyoncé to Diplo are wearing

“Janties” and the other fashion trends you’ll see this festival season

H&M is testing a new, Instagram-influencer-style shopping platform

Beyoncé is entering a sneaker market increasingly driven by pop stars

Nike’s Air Jordan was a key turning point in menswear