Those consumers therefore "seek quantity rather than quality" of clothing, according to economics professor Valerie Guillard at Paris-Dauphine University. Ultra-fast fashion's young target demographic - like Lola - simply have less cash to spend.
Lola normally places two to three orders per month on SHEIN with an average combined value of 70 euros ($71) for about 10 items. The brand simply allows her to follow the latest trends "without spending an astronomical amount", she told AFP, oblivious to the environmental cost. Photographs of mountains of shoddy clothing, returned to the vendor or dumped soon after purchase, have gone viral, highlighting the vast amount of waste.ĭemand for low-price garments has nevertheless soared due to decades-high inflation, while many Covid-hit high-street shops with big overhead costs struggle to compete.Īnd it is wildly popular: SHEIN generated $16 billion in global sales last year, Bloomberg says.Ĭustomers purchase T-shirts for £4.0 ($4.80), while bikinis and dresses sell for as little as £8.0 apiece.įor French high-school student Lola, 18, who lives in the city of Nancy, SHEIN shopping has become a cheap hobby. on huge dump sites, burnt on open fires, along riverbeds and washed out into the sea, with severe consequences for people and the planet," the green pressure group says. Greenpeace has, however, slammed the "throwaway clothing" phenomenon as grossly wasteful, arguing it takes 2,700 litres of water to make one T-shirt that is swiftly binned. Young people under the age of 25 - widely known as Generation Z - love placing multiple orders for ultra-fast fashion, which then arrive in the post. They are giving intense competition to more well-known "fast fashion" chains with physical stores, like Sweden's H&M and Spain's Zara, AFP reported. So if you are happy with that one, no need to print a different one out.So-called "ultra-fast fashion" has won legions of young trend-setting fans who snap up relatively cheap clothes online amid surging inflation, but the booming genre masks darker environmental problems.īritain's Boohoo, China's SHEIN and Hong Kong's Emmiol operate the same internet-based business model - produce items and collections at breakneck speed and rock-bottom prices.
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