All Things Fashion:
The Fashion Industry
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By: Ana Luisa Ramirez, Joaquin Magdalena, Nina Lazo, Zarah Broome-Webster
What is the Fashion Industry?
What is the Fashion Industry?
The fashion industry is the making and selling of clothes. Fast fashion is low-priced, but stylish clothing that moves from designs to stores to follow the trends. In 2023 fast fashions market size was $122.98 billion dollars, but in 2024 the fashion industry grew to 15.5% to equal $142.06 billion (Fast Fashion Market Size, Share, Analysis, Trends, Growth Forecast 2024-2033, n.d.) .
Why is the Fashion Industry a Big Contributor to Climate Change ?
Why is the Fashion Industry a Big Contributor to Climate Change ?
Now a day an average human wears about 20% of clothing their closet (How The Life Systems Approach Offers Less and More | LifeLabs, n.d.). There are many reasons why fast fashion is a big contributor to climate change - the main one is once your clothes don't fit you or it is out of style you will throw it out. Once you throw it out the clothes go to landfills. The Copenhagen Fashion Summit says that there is about 100 billion clothes produced every year, and about 92 million pieces of clothes end up in landfills.
What is Fast Fashion?
Fast fashion is the making and buying of clothes and accessories in a fast time. Fast fashion likes to follow the trends with all these mass productions. The production of these clothes have usually certain deadlines, these deadlines are in a very short time. This harms people mental health and physical. Including pains, depression, and stress as well.
A mountain of used clothes that people have thrown away
Abstract
Abstract
We found that the fashion industry was a problem because it was it is harming the environment, causes waste and destruction of oceans and animal habitats, provides its workers with poor, unhygienic, and unsafe working conditions with unlivable wages, and it emits greenhouse gasses which can harm the environment and human health. It also releases harmful chemicals into water systems, stimulating algae growth that can become toxic and reduce oxygen levels.
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