Fast fashion has emerged as a profitable strategy to drive massive sales, bombarding consumers with a never ending variety of new clothes at cheap prices. Fueled by the pressure to showcase new ...
WENZHOU, China (AP) — At a factory in Zhejiang province on China’s eastern coast, two mounds of discarded cotton clothing and bed linens, loosely separated into dark and light colors, pile up on a ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zoe is a business growth expert covering sustainable fashion & retail. This month, France continued its war on fast fashion with ...
Some consumers say they would prefer to buy clothing made with less injury to the environment. Even so, fast fashion continues to grow unabated. The business model known as fast fashion has proved ...
Fast fashion refers to clothes that are designed quickly and cheaply to keep up with trends. Many of the most popular and readily accessible brands are fast fashion, including Zara, Forever 21, H&M, ...
Climate Change Comes for the House of the Seven Gables China Helped Indonesia Build One of the World’s Biggest, Youngest Coal Fleets. It’s Still Growing. As EPA Stalls, States Are Left to Handle Solar ...
What happens when you send three young fashionistas to a Cambodian sweatshop for a month? Aftenposten, Norway’s biggest newspaper, answered this question with a five-part, online reality TV series.In ...
The list of ills being blamed on the fashion industry includes sweatshops, child labor, the worldwide culture of greed, rampant consumerism, warped self-images, eating disorders, pollution, water ...
I find Wal-Mart fascinating. Wal-Mart is a near perfect example of Clayton Christensen's "Innovator's Dilemma," in many ways. The very things that have made it spectacularly successful are also ...
When shoppers entered H&M’s flagship store in central London last summer, the first thing they would have seen was a dark blue, flowery minidress hanging front and center. On sale for just £4 (or ...