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.