Definitions for fast fashion
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1. Fast fashion

   Fast fashion is a term used to describe the clothing industry's business model of replicating recent catwalk trends and high-fashion designs, mass-producing them at a low cost, and bringing them to retail stores quickly, while demand is at its highest. The term fast fashion is also used generically to describe the products of the fast fashion business model.Fast fashion grew during the late 20th century as manufacturing of clothing became less expensive — the result of more efficient supply chains and new quick response manufacturing methods, and greater reliance on low-cost labor from the apparel manufacturing industries of South, Southeast, and East Asia, where women make up 85-90% of the garment workforce. Labor practices of fast fashion are often exploitative, and due to the gender concentration of the garment industry, women are more vulnerable. Retailers who employ the fast fashion strategy include Primark, H&M, Shein, and Zara, all of which have become large multinationals by driving high turnover of inexpensive seasonal and trendy clothing that appeals to fashion-conscious consumers. The global fashion industry is responsible for ~8–10% of global carbon emissions per year, to which fast fashion is a large contributor. The low cost of production favoring synthetic materials, chemicals, and minimal pollution abatement measures have led to excess waste.

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1. Fast fashion

   Fast fashion is a contemporary term used by fashion retailers to express that designs move from catwalk quickly in order to capture current fashion trends. Fast fashion clothing collections are based on the most recent fashion trends presented at Fashion Week in both the spring and the autumn of every year. These trends are designed and manufactured quickly and cheaply to allow the mainstream consumer to take advantage of current clothing styles at a lower price. This philosophy of quick manufacturing at an affordable price is used in large retailers such as H&M, Zara, Peacocks, and Topshop. It particularly came to the fore during the vogue for "boho chic" in the mid-2000s. This has developed from a product-driven concept based on a manufacturing model referred to as "quick response" developed in the U.S. in the 1980s and moved to a market-based model of "fast fashion" in the late 1990s and first part of the 21st century. Zara has been at the forefront of this fashion retail revolution and their brand has almost become synonymous with the term, but there were other retailers who worked with the concept before the label was applied, such as Benetton. Fast fashion has also become associated with disposable fashion because it has delivered designer product to a mass market at relatively low prices.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fast fashion in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of fast fashion in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of fast fashion in a Sentence

1. Chief Executive Karl-Johan Persson:

   No company, fast-fashion or not, can continue exactly like today, the (prize's) largest potential lies with finding new technology that means we can recycle the fibers with unchanged quality.

2. Greg Portell:

   The combination of fast fashion and accelerating supply chain speeds have exacerbated that risk by increasing the chances that a retailer reads the trends wrong and misses multiple trend cycles.

3. Bill Cunningham:

   A lot of people complain about fashion and fast fashion. There is no fashion. That is baloney. Look at this.

4. Erin Schmidt:

   They're making fast fashion look slow, they've changed the model.

5. Shalini Sinha:

   Contract work for textiles has been growing exponentially because of the growing popularity of readymade garments and fast fashion, even in India, many leading global brands are outsourcing to homeworkers, even if they are unaware of it. Homeworkers are the most vulnerable in the chain, yet they bear a lot of risks because the economic compulsion is so strong.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Fashion
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=fast fashion