Environmental Impact


Fast fashion provides the marketplace with affordale apparel aimed at young women. Fashion magazines, high end partys such as the Met Gala, and trends created by A-list celebritys also creating a dire need for the ''must haves" of the season. Most people will even buy articles of clothing that they will never wear for the sake of keeping up with the latest trends. Since the clothes are cheap, people end up buying more and closets get full easily which in its own way created Disposable couture evident in Shopping centers all across the Americas and Europe at prices that make it tempting and dispose easily. Yet the amount of pollution the fast fashion industry leaves in its wake is appalling. Almost every step of the life cycle these clothes go through are riddeled with enviromental and occupational hazards. Each step of the clothing production process possesses potential for an enviomental impact. An example of this is conventionally grown cotten crops, cotton is a very popular clothing fiber and is used in many articles of clothing but it also is one of the most water and pesticide dependent crops and at factory stage can contain a number of toxins. Animal abuse is also a common sighting in the fashion industry.Because they are objectifying the animals' fur some companys take to harming animals by polluting their habitat, or disrupting the food chain while others take to raising the animals in captivity to shave their fur when the animals get to a ripe age. Both situations make it nearly impossible for the animals to live freely.