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The fashion industry, particularly manufacture and use of apparel and footwear, is a significant driver of greenhouse gas emissions and plastic pollution. [1] The rapid growth of fast fashion has led to around 80 billion items of clothing being consumed annually, with about 85% of clothes consumed in United States being sent to landfill.
Fashion rental and clothing swapping are models that are also known as collaborative fashion consumption; their environmental impact and mitigation of pollution are debated. [ 87 ] [ 88 ] Transportation between users and storage, dry-cleaning, and repackaging causes more environmental impact than reselling or hand-me-downs .
Fashion activism is the practice of using fashion as a medium for social, political, and environmental change. The term has been used recurringly in the works of designers and scholars Lynda Grose, Kate Fletcher, Mathilda Tham, Kirsi Niinimäki, Anja-Lisa Hirscher, Zoe Romano, and Orsola de Castro, as they refer to systemic social and political change through the means of fashion.
Despite its profitability, this industry relies on rapid production to capitalize on new trends and has a significant environmental impact. [8] The fast fashion industry emits approximately 1.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually, which accounts for 5% of all global emissions. [8]
While Xinjiang, where researchers estimate hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs (the Muslim Turkic ethnic group predominately living in Xinjiang) are coerced into forced labor, may not be first to ...
The slow fashion movement has been studied by Kate Fletcher, a researcher, author, consultant, and design activist, and the author of Sustainable Fashion and Textiles. Her writings integrated design thinking with fashion and textiles as a necessary way to move towards a more sustainable fashion industry.
“The Zebras: Dark Start” an Indian indie film examining the profound effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on the fashion industry, has secured U.S. distribution through Double Exposure ...
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the fashion industry was primarily caused by the sudden and global store closures worldwide which strongly impacted the fashion industry. The complete absence of revenue from physical stores caused a deep drop of revenue for fashion retailers, a complete reconfiguration of the stocks for fashion brands ...