Green's in fashion as Lithuanian used clothes site joins $1 billion club
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VILNIUS (Reuters) - Vinted, an online marketplace for second-hand clothes, has surfed a sustainable fashion wave to become Lithuania's first technology startup to reach "unicorn" status with a valuation of over $1 billion (774.6 million pounds).The company, created in 2008 as one founder wanted to give away surplus clothes after moving to a new house, is growing rapidly as the fashion industry comes under growing scrutiny for fuelling a throwaway culture. In a sign of the times, Anna Wintour,..