newspaper article: 

Jenny Lee. (May 7, 2016, Saturday). Entrepreneurs buckle up to tackle slow fashion; Competing against low-priced, fast-fashion chains like Zara and HM, Vancouver’s small fashion retailers are gaining ground selling sustainable, ethically produced, fair-trade clothes, Jenny Lee writes. National Post’s Financial Post & FP Investing (Canada). https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:5JPT-82W1-JBKR-R3RK-00000-00&context=1516831.

At the beginning of the article, we are given the number of stores Zara has and it shows the effect that causes the competition with other stores, specifically local stores. Zara and H&M are the biggest stores that are the top examples people use when speaking about fast fashion starters. The idea of this company having several locations in many places might be good for consumers but this newspaper article helps me speak about the fact that the importance of sustainability isn’t always considered when it comes to speaking about the issues these fast fashion companies have. Sustainability should be put alongside the other issues such as work labor and the poor conditions they work in because the garments they’re making from the ideas of these companies are affecting

Netflix Show  

The Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | The Ugly Truth of Fast Fashion

This is a Netflix show called The Patriot Act that speaks about several topics in a comedic way to bring more awareness and interest to people. In this video, Hasan Minhaj the host spoke about fast fashion and the effect it has. The majority of the causes of the effects of fast fashion are done by the consumers themselves and they don’t know it. Fast fashion stores purposely make their clothes cheap so the consumers would buy more clothes but at a cheaper price and quality. Though these clothes come out being cheap, the cost to make them is extremely expensive. In the sense that the cost to make clothes for fast fashion stores has its effect on the planet that we live on. Hasan makes people aware that to make a cotton shirt an audience member was wearing took the same amount of water a person would drink for 25 years of their life. Though it is a talk show the information that was given throughout this episode is credible because Hasan isn’t just talking nonsense for the 45 minutes you’re giving him while watching these informative videos you’re being met with statistics. 

Book Source

Fashionopolis The Price of Fast Fashion & The Future of Clothes by Dana Thomas  

Chapter One: Ready To wear pages 33-37

This chapter is the first one I was met with and it gives the reader a clear description of why and how fast fashion was brought to life. During the history of fashion there are different categories of clothes are put in but fast fashion came and it blurred the lines. The clothes that are considered to be part of the fast fashion movement are part of the fast-fashion world because they can be worn for any occasion. These stores are kept stable because of the process the owners create so that way the money can come just as fast as the clothes are being sold and made. These stores are the end of the trail of being accused of having millions of dollars and hundreds of stores but the result is not shown in the treatment the employees are given. The information in this chapter is not only told by one person but it is told by several people in the fashion industry that have different positions that all speak about the effect they experience by fast fashion companies and speak about the solutions these companies can do while showing how they’ll have a drastic effect.