Content creator spends 90 hours, $2,000 making sweater from NYC sheep wool
Bloomberg Television interviewed content creator Macy Gilliam about her project to produce one sweater entirely from scratch. She began at the Queens County Farm Museum sheep-shearing festival in May 2025, selected merino wool from a sheep named Fraher, then spent four months and 90 hours washing, spinning, dyeing, and knitting the garment in her New York City apartment. The segment highlights opaque fashion supply chains, questions whether higher prices guarantee better ethics or quality, and references the EU digital product passport. Gilliam notes the finished sweater cost $2,000 at cost (largely labor) but is uncomfortable and poorly fitted; she has worn it only three times. Sourcing relied on her firsthand account and general industry observations.
Source: Bloomberg Television