In the end, fast fashion has been found on a list of the many factors of the causes of global warming. After seeing the research I’ve done the blame cannot just be put on the consumers but the fast fashion companies have to take accountability as well. In the different examples of research I found slow fast fashion is the action that some fashion businesses are taking to make fashion sustainable for all. Through all my examples of research that is what I found. Not only were solutions presented to me but causes, effects, the why, and the how we’re all together in my sources. Though it may only interest some, the idea of fashion affects all so shoppers and companies should start making smarter decisions when it comes down to what they’re buying.
Author: Madeline
When it comes to contributing to the negative effects that Eart experiences it is an idea that humans tend to deny for their own guilt but, what if I told you that you contribute to global warming every day with the majority of the things in your closet? Fast fashion is being able to afford luxury fashion at a faster and cheaper demand some of my favorite brands like Zara, H&M, Forever 21, and more are at the top of the list of being the number one fashion criminals when it comes to being a contribution to global warming. When it comes to fashion learning about the effects of fast fashion people need to realize that it doesn’t just affect their closets. Though fashion has been around for a long time it has been recorded through several amounts of data that having retail stores be places with the mindset of quick and cheap clothes at a fast pace, ends up having a more expensive effect than these companies intended for. Having horrible working environments at their manufacturing factories to be responsible for using billions of gallons of water for a cotton shirt; the effects may seem long term but if companies were to start to be more consistent with the rules and bans they place the new trend of fashion can become the healthiest it’s ever been.Â
newspaper article:Â
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 Â
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.Â
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.Â
In the reading “Chronicles of a Once Pessimistic College Freshmen.” by Bilal Rahmani we are met with examples that show us a clear representation of what ended up being Rahmani’s intellectual chosen home. His intellectual home was the college. Rahmani ended up going to City Tech and at first he wasn’t a fan of the idea of him going to the school. Rahmani thought the school environment was a depressing place, felt as though the school didn’t have anything going for it self nor would have anything for him and it was clear he wasn’t interested to be apart of the community. There was a time in college where Rahmani was humbled by his own peers and he realized that the students here are actually interesting, possibly more interesting than him. It was a discussion about Hemingway and that the moment where he had a change in perspective about the environment he was in. Rahmani had entered the school not interested in being apart of the community and didn’t think anyone in the school would interest him enough to change his opinions on the school but after experiencing discussions with other students it was a clear change and how he wanted to attend the school from moving forward. Rahmani entered clubs that he thought he never would before he was more engaged in what he was being taught, he ended up feeling comfortable in his environment.Â
