Facts About Fast Fashion

What is fast fashion? “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”. - Solene Rauturier

These are the problems with fast fashion:

In 1980, the average american bought 12 articles of clothing each year, today the average american buys 68 articles of clothing each year

Women on average wear their clothes three times or less - quickly produced affordable fashion is the only way to fulfill this insatiable desire for new clothing

Average American throws away 80lbs of clothes each year

Most of the clothes you donate end up in the trash - Just one Salvation Army in New York creates 18 tons of unwanted clothing every three days

Compared to twenty years ago, we’re only keeping what we buy for half as long

If donated clothes aren't sold in a month, they’re sold to buyers in a developing country, but they end up having to throw it away to which creates landfills and end up getting burned

87% of fabric used for clothing ends up incinerated or in a landfill