Fast fashion🥀

• Fast fashion

  Low priced clothing that is mass produced quickly to meet trends
• Transnational corporation


  They produce and sell in different countries
• Sustainable fashion


  Clothing needs of the present without ruining the ability of future generations needs
• Virtual water


  An idea of how much water is used when making cotton products
• High demand for fast fashion


  Social media influence + sponsors

  They are cheap and affordable

  The clothes keep up with the trends

  Use if disposable income

  Online shopping
• Problems created by fast fashion items


  Increases global warming because of the air pollution created by the mass produced clothing.

  Uses child labour (transnational corporations)

  The clothes are cheap so people don't care if they are thrown away

  Water is wasted from making cotton products.

  Generates more pollution than airplanes and shipping combined.

  Workers in sweatshops can develop anxiety and depression from the repetitive work.
• Transnational corporation

  Produces and sells in different countries. Advantage of this is that people can be employed because there are more jobs and profits made in the factory. Disasvantage is that the workers are paid less because TNS target low income countries so they will do more work for little money
• Positive impacts of fast fashion

  • they are affordable
  • the clothes have a variety of trends
  • transported quickly to consumers because they are made so quickly
  • Lots of people are attracted to fast fashion, so there would be lots of profit from it
• Environmental impacts

  • Responsible for more carbon emissions than airplanes and shipping combined
  • fast fashion has become a source of microplastics in marine environments as the cheap plastic-based materials shed fibres that make their way into the ocean
  • consumers get rid of lost trend clothes making them always want to buy more. This wastes natural resources
• Mental impacts

  • makes the consumer have to participate in a trend
  • relies on exploitation of human labour to deliver garments
  • the workers could develop depression or anxiety because of how strict the owners are on them
• Working conditions

  • cramped spaces
  • long hours
  • under pressure from people clicking constantly on fast fashion websites
  • their payment is based on how many clothes they make
  • repetitive work
  • paid very little