Undressed Episode Two: The New High Fashion

By Sydney Stein, Emily Kvitko, and Smera Kumar

On this week’s podcast we explore marijuana and how its rising popularity could lead to the plant's takeover of the fashion industry. Designers like Alexander Wang and Mara Hoffman have already incorporated cannabis motifs into their clothing, but marijuana imagery is not the only way we suspect weed will take over fashion.

Inspired by a Business of Fashion article by Lauren Sherman, we consider how marijuana is about to transform the luxury accessory market. We figure that one day, people will pay as much for a pipe as they do for their purse - right? It’s not an unlikely progression, especially since more and more states are legalizing recreational marijuana.

As it stands, there is a new form of high fashion that we want to tell you more about.