The world is miserable at recycling plastics. Currently, just 10–15% of the plastic waste we generate annually is recycled — with the rest incinerated, buried in landfill or dumped as litter 1, 2.

The Comme des Garçons Shirt show began, as usual, a couple of minutes before its advertised start time of 9:15am. That so many people wake at the crack of dawn on a Saturday to schlep to Place ...