Fast Fashion Explained: The Facts, the Impact, the Future
A 2018 textile waste report the average person throws away about 82 pounds of clothing every year, and around 70 of those pounds end up in landfills. When you think about it, that is an entire closet being tossed out by one person in a single year without even looking back. Since its start in the 1970s, the fast fashion industry has been growing and definitely making itself noticed, but not always in a good way. Although more people are aware of this concept in modern society, they overlook and simply do not care but the damage that the five dollar t-shirt they will wear only once and throw away might have on future generations. From Who Knows China The creation of the brand Zara was what bringed in the necessity for a term such as fast fashion. Fast fashion is essentially when companies copy the designs of the latest runway walks, produce them in the cheapest manner, and sell them in the same way, selling them quickly "maximise" the latest ...
