6 American Cotton Farmers Are Making Half a Million Pairs of Luxury Jeans

By Elizabeth Segran

Fast Company

Marshall Hardwick is chatting with me from his truck, parked in front of his cotton field in Northeast Louisiana. After our call, he’ll begin harvesting the crop. Most years, he has no idea what the cotton will become: a T-shirt or a blanket, perhaps. But in a few months, these particular bolls will be transformed into thousands of pairs of luxury jeans.

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