'It is our responsibility as consumers to educate ourselves on the fashion industry so that we can make informed and intentional decisions. Fast fashion can be defined as cheap, trendy clothing, that samples ideas from the catwalk or celebrity culture and turns them into garments in high street stores at breakneck speed to meet consumer demand. - Good On You (https://goodonyou.eco/what-is-fast-fashion/) We now have about 52 \"seasons\" thanks to the quick weekly turnaround of products by fast fashion brands. The demand for clothing, accessories and shoes across the world has brought the fast fashion sector\'s worth up to $1.5 trillion as of 2020. It\'s the second largest polluting industry, right behind oil. How to identify a fast fashion brand: ➝ cheap, low quality materials ➝ short turnaround time from when you see a celebrity wearing an item to when you see it in store ➝ offshore manufacturing in cheap labour countries (eg. Bangladesh, India, Cambodia) ➝ limited quantities of specific garments ➝ thousands of styles within one retailer\'s website or store How to shop with sustainability & ethics in mind : https://youtu.be/ahSnDGw6Ggg ✰ Chapters ✰ 0:00 Intro 0:20 // Which consumers are the biggest issue? 1:35 // What\'s the overarching problem? 3:09 // The Fashion Supply Chain model 5:21 // Step 1: Fiber - sustainability issues 11:34 // Step 1: Fiber - human rights issues and Uighurs 13:29 // Step 2: Yarn 15:31 // Step 3: Textiles - chemical, dyes and toxic waste water 18:23 // Step 3: Textiles - human and female rights issues, how much workers make 19:56 // Step 4: Garment - human rights issues, Rana Plaza incident 22:39 // Other questions to be asking about how garments are made... 24:25 // Step 5: Distribution - packaging, workers, carbon emissions 28:26 // Step 6: Retail - overproduction, waste, incineration and transparency 31:33 // What is a closed loop cycle? 32:52 // Step 7: Consumers - what are we doing wrong? 35:40 // Where do unsold inventory from thrift/consignment stores go? 38:38 // Our RESPONSIBILITY *Eye-Opening Articles and Resources* Surviving the Next Century: https://bit.ly/3oD3OHP Redesigning Fashion’s Future (report): https://bit.ly/3npKRXw Why clothes are so hard to recycle: https://bbc.in/38mkkpN Soil Degradation: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/soil-degradation Read about cotton and its water consumption: https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2016/quenching-cottons-thirst-reducing-use-water-cotton-lifecycle/57196 Rana Plaza disaster: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/style/survivors-of-rana-plaza-disaster.html Minimum wage in Bangladesh: https://bit.ly/3ooxfNq The True Cost (documentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxhCpLzreCw Fashion Revolution (https://www.fashionrevolution.org/) - A non-profit that raises awareness via social media and provides straightforward actions for consumers to engage in to get involved with the ethical fashion movement. Conscious Chatter (https://consciouschatter.com/) - A podcast all about fashion, sustainability and ethics. ✰ WHERE YOU CAN FIND ME ✰ ➝ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/haleyestradaa/ ➝ Blog: https://www.thisishaley.com/ ➝ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/haleyestradaa/ ➝ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/haleyelizabethestrada ✰ ABOUT ME ✰ Age: 22 Ethnicity: Filipino/Spanish/Canadian Home: Vancouver, Canada Waist Size: 23-24\" Bust: 32D Height: 4\'11” ✰ FILMING & EDITING ✰ Intro Icon Graphic by: @kelsiewinsor Edited with: iMovie CAMERA #1 Olympus PEN E-PL8 // M. Zuiko 12mm F2.0 Lens (https://bit.ly/34tGXXS) CAMERA #2 Canon G7X Mark ii (https://go.magik.ly/ml/zw87/) Community Guidelines: If you don\'t have anything nice to say, then please don\'t say anything at all. Hate speech, shaming, negativity, abuse, harassment and spam are not tolerated on this channel. If these guidelines are disrespected, your comments will be held for review/deleted and/or blocked. This video is not sponsored. All thoughts and opinions are my own. There may be some affiliate links in the description box which means that I make a small commission on the sale if you choose to purchase through the link, but it does not increase the price for you. This helps me to continue sharing videos with you on a regular basis.'
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