Fast-Fashion Brands, Definition, Environmental Impact
Everything to Know About Fast Fashion and How to Avoid It
Are There Alternatives to Fast Fashion?
Secondhand shopping is great, and supporting small fashion brands that pay their workers properly and put the planet first in design is also important. However, the biggest takeaway about the impact of fast fashion is that our reliance on trends has led us to a bad place. "The best thing we can do is to love our clothing [items] and take care of them, by washing and drying properly, wearing them until they are worn, mending and repairing them, then responsibly recycling when they are no longer usable," a spokesperson for Fashion Revolution says.
That being said, when you're buying new clothes that are cheap, someone is paying the price, and it's usually the workers. Some brands like For Days, Thousand Fell, Pangaia, Mayamiko, and SukkhaCitta are all working to bring fashion to market that will still give you the trends and styles you want but will have less of an impact on the environment in the long run.
