Cheap?
Trendy?
A lot of
choices?

UNSUSTAINABLE
BRAND
SUSTAINABLE
BRAND

FAST FASHION
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Its impacts

WHAT IS
FAST FASHION?
…cheap, trendy clothing that
samples ideas from the
catwalk or celebrity culture
and turns them into garments
in high street stores at
breakneck speed to meet
consumer demand.

HISTORY
- Before the 1800s: fashion was a laborious with time-
consuming process.
- Then, the Industrial Revolution forever changed the
world of fashion: sewing machine and textile
machines
- In the late 1990s and 2000s: low-cost fashion
reached a peak
- Took the looks and design elements from the top
fashion houses and reproduced them quickly and
cheaply

Why is fast fashion bad?
Polluting our planet
• Its Use of cheap, toxic textile dyes
• Its uses of inexpensive materials:
Polyester - a emit 706 million tons of
CO2 per year and take thousands of
years to decompose.
• The processing of leather: 300kg of
chemicals added to every 900kg of
animal hides tanned.

Why is fast fashion bad?
Harming animals
• Toxic dyes and microfibres released in waterways are
ingested by land and marine life through the food chain.
• animal products: leather, fur,
=> animal welfare is put at risk.

Why is fast fashion bad?
Exploiting workers
• Dangerous environments, low wages, no fundamental
human rights. toxic chemicals and brutal practices:
effect on workers’ physical and mental health.
• For example, the Rana Plaza building collapse in
Bangladesh claimed 1,127 lives and injured 2,500.

Why is fast fashion bad?
Encourages a “throw-away” consumer mentality
• Many young people admit they only wear their
purchases once or twice
• At least 39,000 tons of clothes will be left lying
in desert landfills.
Chile landfills