In “Source Material,” George Washington University’s Textile Museum scrutinizes fast fashion, clothing waste and reclaimed ...

The styles are very trendy and the items are poorly made and made of petroleum-based fabrics rather than natural materials ... use. Rock-bottom prices can be appealing, but the downsides to fast ...

It's also made in large quantities, with materials ... the global fashion industry. "Fast-fashion companies cut corners to try and make more money, and with that, they use cheap-quality fabrics ...

That universal feeling is a product of a first-world problem that has become prevalent in recent years: fast fashion ... 50s and ’60s. The material they used back then is way more high quality ...

Fast fashion focuses ... in a way it didn’t used to be. There is interest in moving towards a more circular model of textile production which reuses materials wherever possible, yet current ...

Consumers may find it difficult to avoid products manufactured by companies that practice fast fashion. However, they can investigate fast fashion brands to see if they use sustainable processes ...

In response to the environmental issues caused by the fast-fashion industry ... Aleksandrova decided to use the waste tea-and-moss-stained materials to create her final "open-ended outcome".

Fast, disposable ... “It started because people are requesting more from the fashion industry, basically the big brands used to do four collections a year, but right now they’re doing one ...