A type of woven cloth or fabric
Textiles
Define Fast fashion
Low priced clothing that moves quickly from design to retail stores to meet trends
What is a sweat shop, define
A factory or workshop, especially in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions.
Define globalisation
The process by which ideas , knowledge , information , goods and services spread around the world.
Define Outsourcing
The term used for when fast fashion brands use external companies to make part of the clothing item, eg. zip for jeans
What are the 7 stages of the fast fashion cycle?
- Design
- Textiles
- Manufacturing
- Distribution
5.User - Discarding
- Recycling
What happens during the design phase?
- fashion = not seasonal
- companies recognise trends and create similar versions but at an affordable price
What happens during the Textiles phase?
- farming for cotton + wool
- manufacturing of synthetic fibres
- these industries use large amounts of chemical pesticides
What happens during the manufacturing phase?
- factories compete to make cheap clothing to maintain business
- mostly in Bangladesh, China, India, Vietnam and Cambodia
- low wages + unsafe working conditions
What happens during the distribution phase?
- clothing transported thourgh distribution network
- distribution centres
- to retail stores –> Zara, H&M, The Gap
(pollution from transport methods)
What happens during the the user phase?
- advertising + social media exposure (increases consumption)
what happens during the discarding phase?
- Frequent clothing trend changes –> leads to large textiles in landfill
What happens during the Recycling phase?
- Some clothing = recycled
- some reused clothing = rags,
- some donated or clothing ends up in Asian + African nations
What are some benefits of globalisation?
- companies take advantage of lower labour cost
- job growth in developing nations –> growing economies
What are the downsides of Globalisation?
- Severe unpayment of workers in less enveloped countries
- unsafe working conditions
- children not educated –> as they are forced to work (child labour)
Where is the Rana Plaza
In Dhaka, Bangladesh
list 3 ways fast fashion negatively affects the environment
- Pesticides in soil from cotton farms
- consumption of unneeded products leading to more in landfill
- greenhouse gas emissions
