Our profile of Zara earlier in this module highlights the emergence and expansion of the principles, practices, and profits of fast fashion. This contemporary term describes designs that move from catwalk to storefronts quickly to capture exploit fashion trends. A second, critical definition adds that fast fashion is not only about quickly moving from runway to store to the consumer, but also to the garbage dump. Companies in the fast fashion game (you know the big ones: Zara, along with H&M, Forever21, and their ilk sell very low-to-mid quality, inexpensive clothes. Rather than releasing two or more collections at certain times each year, such as Spring and Fall, as was the standard in the fashion industry for generations, they constantly push out a new product. This strategy enables them to keep pace, if not set, rapidly changing consumer tastes. Famously, Fashion Nova takes this to the nth degree, rolling out imitations of popular looks just a day or two after a new look debuts on Instagram. Fast fashion most believe, began in the late 1980s. In the decades since, we've seen clothes decrease in quality as they increase in quantity. Social media have only accelerated the problem. The desire to never be photographed in the same outfit twice, combined with the constant advertising—both in influencer's sponsored posts and actual ads—interspersed in users' Instagram feeds, fuels a desire for constant wardrobe renewal. Explained one fashionista, "I wouldn’t really want someone seeing me in a dress more than once. People might think I didn’t have style if I wore the same thing over and over." The total price of fast fashion, as we see in the statistics reported in the infographics below, are staggering. Based on this graphic, please identify the correct representations in the following set. A) A top corporate CEO earns as much in a year as 1,000 people working in a garment factory in China. B) Americans buy roughly 20 million garments a year—about 6.4 items per person C) Bangladesh has the lowest minimum wage in the global apparel industry is $120 a month—less than many spend at the cash register in a single transaction. D) It takes 700 gallons of water to produce the cotton needed to make a single T-shirt. E) About 10.5 million tons of clothes end up American landfills each year. By simply re-wearing clothes for an extra 6 to 9 months, you can reduce environmental impact of fashion by as much as 20 to 30%.

Our profile of Zara earlier in this module highlights the emergence and expansion of the principles, practices, and profits of fast fashion. This contemporary term describes designs that move from catwalk to storefronts quickly to capture exploit fashion trends. A second, critical definition adds that fast fashion is not only about quickly moving from runway to store to the consumer, but also to the garbage dump. Companies in the fast fashion game (you know the big ones: Zara, along with H&M, Forever21, and their ilk sell very low-to-mid quality, inexpensive clothes. Rather than releasing two or more collections at certain times each year, such as Spring and Fall, as was the standard in the fashion industry for generations, they constantly push out a new product. This strategy enables them to keep pace, if not set, rapidly changing consumer tastes. Famously, Fashion Nova takes this to the nth degree, rolling out imitations of popular looks just a day or two after a new look debuts on Instagram. Fast fashion most believe, began in the late 1980s. In the decades since, we've seen clothes decrease in quality as they increase in quantity. Social media have only accelerated the problem. The desire to never be photographed in the same outfit twice, combined with the constant advertising—both in influencer's sponsored posts and actual ads—interspersed in users' Instagram feeds, fuels a desire for constant wardrobe renewal. Explained one fashionista, "I wouldn’t really want someone seeing me in a dress more than once. People might think I didn’t have style if I wore the same thing over and over." The total price of fast fashion, as we see in the statistics reported in the infographics below, are staggering. Based on this graphic, please identify the correct representations in the following set. A) A top corporate CEO earns as much in a year as 1,000 people working in a garment factory in China. B) Americans buy roughly 20 million garments a year—about 6.4 items per person C) Bangladesh has the lowest minimum wage in the global apparel industry is $120 a month—less than many spend at the cash register in a single transaction. D) It takes 700 gallons of water to produce the cotton needed to make a single T-shirt. E) About 10.5 million tons of clothes end up American landfills each year. By simply re-wearing clothes for an extra 6 to 9 months, you can reduce environmental impact of fashion by as much as 20 to 30%.

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This strategy enables them to keep pace, if not set, rapidly changing consumer tastes. Famously, Fashion Nova takes this to the nth degree, rolling out imitations of popular looks just a day or two after a new look debuts on Instagram.

Fast fashion most believe, began in the late 1980s. In the decades since, we've seen clothes decrease in quality as they increase in quantity. Social media have only accelerated the problem. The desire to never be photographed in the same outfit twice, combined with the constant advertising—both in influencer's sponsored posts and actual ads—interspersed in users' Instagram feeds, fuels a desire for constant wardrobe renewal.

Explained one fashionista, "I wouldn’t really want someone seeing me in a dress more than once. People might think I didn’t have style if I wore the same thing over and over."

The total price of fast fashion, as we see in the statistics reported in the infographics below, are staggering.

Based on this graphic, please identify the correct representations in the following set.

A) A top corporate CEO earns as much in a year as 1,000 people working in a garment factory in China.

B) Americans buy roughly 20 million garments a year—about 6.4 items per person

C) Bangladesh has the lowest minimum wage in the global apparel industry is $120 a month—less than many spend at the cash register in a single transaction.

D) It takes 700 gallons of water to produce the cotton needed to make a single T-shirt.

E) About 10.5 million tons of clothes end up American landfills each year. By simply re-wearing clothes for an extra 6 to 9 months, you can reduce environmental impact of fashion by as much as 20 to 30%.

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Made in America
today
Americans buy roughly 20 billion garments a year-
about 64 items per person.
Made
in other
countries
57%
The Fast Facts
on Fast Fashion
10,000
people
Made
in China
41%
A top corporate
CEO earns as
much in a year as
Sources:
2%
The U.S. now makes 2% of the
clothing we purchase, down
from about 50% in 1990.
working in garment
factories in Bangladesh.
Made in America
in 1990
Made
in other
countries
Made
in the
U.S.
50% 50%
Approximately 80% of the world's garment workers are women.
140
five gallon
water tanks
Oxfam International (2016)
World Bank (2017)
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MADE IN CHINA
41% of the clothes
purchased in the U.S. are
made in China.
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Bangladesh has the
lowest minimum
About 10.5 million tons of clothes end up in American landfills each year.
By simply re-wearing clothes for an extra 6-9 months, you can reduce
the environmental impact of fashion by as much as
20%-30%
wage in the global apparel
industry at $68 a month.
That's less than many spend at the
cash register of fast fashion retailers.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-06-21/book-review-overdressed-by-elizabeth-l-dot-cline
Bloomberg (2012)
The Atlantic (2015) http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/03/the-neurological-pleasures-of-modern-shopping/388577/
New York Times (2013)
It can take
700 gallons
of water to produce
the cotton needed to
make a single T-shirt.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/world/asia/bangladesh-takes-step-toward-raising-38-a-month-minimum-wage.html
https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachments/bp-economy-for-99-percent-160117-summ-en.pdf
World Wildlife Fund (2013) https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/the-impact-of-a-cotton-t-shirt
Overdressed by Elizabeth Cline (2013) http://overdressedthebook.com/
http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2017/02/07/in-bangladesh-empowering-and-employing-women-in-the-garments-sector

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