fast fashion
noun
: an approach to the design, creation, and marketing of clothing fashions that emphasizes making fashion trends quickly and cheaply available to consumers
For many shoppers, Primark has an irresistible offer: trendy clothes at astonishingly low prices. The result is a new and even faster kind of fast fashion, which encourages consumers to buy heaps of items, discard them after a few wears and then come back for another batch of new outfits.—
The Economist
The EconomistCompetition is fierce at every end of the fashion spectrum from luxury to fast fashion.—Nedra Rhone
Nedra RhoneIn 1985, we bought roughly 31 clothing items per year; now [in 2012] we snap up twice that many thanks to "fast fashion."—Azeen Ghorayshi
—usually hyphenated when used before another nounAzeen Ghorayshifast-fashion chains/retailers
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Buy Less, Buy Better Higher-quality garments shed fewer fibers as cheap, fast fashion fabrics shed twice as many fibers as higher-quality woven garments.
—Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
While the Trump tariffs might offer a temporary and unintended environmental benefit by slightly slowing GHG emissions and potentially reducing fast fashion waste, these co-benefits are significantly outweighed by the substantial co-costs imposed on labor and livelihoods.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
Marcelo Claure: Claure is an entrepreneur who currently works with fast fashion company Shein.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 13 May 2025
The fast fashion platform Shein is offering incentives to Chinese factories to help with the cost of moving to Vietnam, according to one factory owner.
—Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 10 May 2025
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Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
While the Trump tariffs might offer a temporary and unintended environmental benefit by slightly slowing GHG emissions and potentially reducing fast fashion waste, these co-benefits are significantly outweighed by the substantial co-costs imposed on labor and livelihoods.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
Marcelo Claure: Claure is an entrepreneur who currently works with fast fashion company Shein.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 13 May 2025
The fast fashion platform Shein is offering incentives to Chinese factories to help with the cost of moving to Vietnam, according to one factory owner.
—Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 10 May 2025
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“Fast fashion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fast%20fashion. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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