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fast fashion /fast ˈfaSHən/: an approach to the design, creation, and marketing of clothing fashions that emphasizes making fashion trends quickly and cheaply available to consumers
Although its definition sounds harmless, fast fashion has dangerously caused environmental and social issues throughout the world, including toxic chemicals found in fabrics, landfills, and child labor in textile mills.
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As teenagers, we are striving to spark an interest in sustainability among our friends and peers. We strongly believe that through our projects of recycling and redesigning our clothes, we can slowly reduce our carbon footprint. Even the smallest changes will accumulate and help the environment on a larger scale. Ultimately, we aim to create a community of consumers who are conscious of this detrimental industry. Hopefully, more and more people will join the fashion revolution and transform the market into one that is sustainable.
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Re EnVogue's mission is to redefine the approach to the design, creation, and marketing of our clothing by reinventing old clothing to suit today's trends, while bringing awareness to the dangers of fast fashion.
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Hazardous chemicals are being used in the dyeing process of fabrics that can potentially cause numerous health issues, from hormone disruption to cancer. Remaining chemicals are found dumped in rivers near the factories.
Many consumers claimed to detect a potent smell from their shoes or clothing: “Elizabeth Cline once described buying a pair of shoes at Kmart like this: ‘I remember that the shoes just smelled toxic, like there were fumes coming off of them. That made me wonder what the environmental impact of what I was doing was’”
In Australia, more than a half a million tons of textiles and leather are found in landfill per year. On average, Americans dispose 12.8 million tons of textiles per year: 80 lbs per man, woman, and child.
170 million children are suffering through child labor and millions are specifically working in textile or cotton mills. Many families are sending their daughters to spinning mills, thinking they will earn decent wages, when many times, there is extremely little or no pay.
In Uzbekistan, government officials force children to spend their summers to pick cotton by threatening to expel them from school.
In southern India, cotton mill factory managers have forced young girls to take hormones to prevent them from menstruating because women are seemingly less productive when menstruating.