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  2. A history of fast fashion: ethical issues, high demand, and ...

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    Fast fashion came to prominence in the early 1990s, though the concept had been around since the '70s. Until about half a century ago, most Americans purchased textiles and clothing made in the U ...

  3. What is fast fashion, and why is it so controversial? - AOL

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    Fast fashion is a business model that focuses on the production of garments in bulk, and as quickly as possible, in response to current trends, according to Dr. Preeti Arya, an assistant professor ...

  4. Fast Fashion's hidden costs: environmental and ethical ... - AOL

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    The fast fashion industry, known for rapid production of low-cost clothing, is under increasing scrutiny for its environmental impacts. Fast Fashion's hidden costs: environmental and ethical concerns.

  5. Fast fashion - Wikipedia

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    Fast fashion is the business model of replicating recent catwalk trends and high-fashion designs, mass-producing them at a low cost, and bringing them to retail quickly while demand is at its highest. The term fast fashion is also used generically to describe the products of this business model, particularly clothing and footwear.

  6. Ethical consumerism - Wikipedia

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    Ethical consumerism (alternatively called ethical consumption, ethical purchasing, moral purchasing, ethical sourcing, or ethical shopping and also associated with sustainable and green consumerism) is a type of consumer activism based on the concept of dollar voting. [1]

  7. The demand for fast fashion poses a challenge for vintage fashion and sustainable fashion in general. Fast fashion aims to give consumers access to the latest fashion trends quickly at affordable prices. The global fast fashion market is rapidly growing, with the market size expected to increase from $106.42 billion in 2022 to $122.98 billion ...

  8. Critical consumerism - Wikipedia

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    One variety of critical consumption is the political use of consumption: consumers’ choice of “producers and products with the aim of changing ethically or politically objectionable institutional or market practices.” [6] Such choices depend on different factors, such as non-economic issues that concern personal and family well-being, and issues of fairness, justice, ethical or political ...

  9. Boohoo: Here are the ethical promises the fast-fashion brand ...

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    Boohoo has broken promises to make its clothes fairly and ethically, a BBC investigation has found. The fast fashion firm pledged to overhaul its practices in 2020 after coming under fire over ...