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.
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The term fast fashion is used generically to describe the products of the fast fashion business model.
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However, the Industrial Revolution forever changed the world of Fast fashion by introducing new technology like the sewing machine and textile machines, which led to ready-made clothes and mass production factories.
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Fast fashion eventually was able to move to New York in the early 1990s where the New York Times first coined the term “fast fashion” to describe the mission of his store, which said that “it would only take 15 days for a garment to go from a designer's brain to being sold on the racks”.
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Fast fashion brands produce pieces to get the newest style on the market as soon as possible.
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Fast fashion has developed from a product-driven concept based on a manufacturing model referred to as "quick response" developed in the US in the 1980s and moved to a market-based model of "fast fashion" in the late 1990s and first part of the 21st century.
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Fast fashion has become associated with disposable fashion because it has delivered designer product to a mass market at relatively low prices.
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Fast fashion has come under criticism for contributing to poor working conditions in developing countries.
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British Vogue explains that the process of designing and creating clothing in slow Fast fashion involves consciousness of materials, consumers demand, and the climate impact.
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Khan points out that because most slow fashion products are significantly more expensive than fast fashion items, consumers are required to have a certain amount of disposable income in order to participate in the movement.
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One low production cost in the fast fashion retail is the investment cost of materials to make a garment.
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Fast fashion invests in polyester and cotton fabric because they are inexpensive and durable materials.
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Fast fashion industry do face economic criticisms of hiring garments workers from developing countries for their low wages.
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Not only is fast fashion based on reducing cycles but it is based on trends that change throughout the seasons to stimulate sales.
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In recent years, fast fashion retailers have taken on a new approach to reach their consumers.
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Fast fashion is considered to be a "supermarket" segment within the larger sense of the fashion market.
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Traditionally, Fast fashion buying cycles are based around long term forecasts that occur one year to six months before the season.
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Companies in the fast fashion market utilize a range of relationships with the suppliers.
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Productive internal relationships within the fast fashion companies are as important as the company's relationships with external suppliers, especially when it comes to the company's buyers.
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The growing demand for quick Fast fashion continuously adds effluent release from the textile factories, containing both dyes and caustic solutions.
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The business model of fast fashion is based on consumers' desire for new clothing to wear.
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In recent years, the fashion cycle has steadily decreased as fast fashion retailers sell clothing that is expected to be disposed of after being worn only a few times.
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