#fast-fashion

#fast-fashion

"Consumers will see higher prices and potentially longer shipping times as Shein and others move from direct shipping to sending volumes of goods in containers to the USA to be re-sent from their USA-based warehousing."

"The past 12 months have been rough for many retail chains, with major names filing for bankruptcy and closing hundreds of locations, leaving a significant impact on the retail landscape."

Fashion education still emphasizes traditional creative skills, leaving a gap in sustainability awareness. As the industry faces environmental crises, urgent reforms are needed.

A typical closet is loaded with plastic, woven into polyester activewear, acrylic sweaters, nylon swimsuits and stretchy socks, shedding plastic fiber fragments into the environment.

"When there is a cost of living crisis you look for that cheap fashion, you don't ask where it comes from. How many of us actually ask where our clothes are made?"

Slow fashion emerges as a potential beneficiary from Trump’s global trade war, promoting sustainable practices in the face of a struggling fast fashion market.

In 2012, I found a piece of material in a rock pool that changed my life... starting the recovery of synthetic clothing from around the coastline of Britain for the next ten years.

H&M's business model is under pressure as competitors like Abercrombie, American Eagle, and Gap provide similar quality and prices, raising the stakes in the fast fashion arena.