i am sick of people with a lot of disposable income bitching about the ethical issues with ‘fast fashion’. poor people need clothes too (and sometimes want/need current season fashion so second-hand is not always an option). congrats on being able to afford to shop ‘ethically’ and congrats on the fact that you’re literally wearing clothes from ASOS, TopShop or Zara while bitching about ‘fast fashion’.
Obviously what happened with the Bangladesh factory diaster is terrible and sweatshops are fucked but shaming poor people about buying cheap clothes isn’t the way to change anything, it just makes you look like an elitist wealthy douchebag.
“By all means, if you are willing to buy into this (H&M x MMM) collaboration, please do, just don’t think that you are buying ‘fashion’ or a part of Margiela’s legacy — what you are buying are assembly-line knockoffs that you will discard by next year. But if this has become your idea of fashion, I urge you to reconsider.”
—Eugene Rabkin making the case against fast fashion collaborations. (Note: we’re not against affordable clothing, but there are some good points in Rabkin’s article on how fast fashion companies use these collaborations for marketing purposes, and how consumers buy this stuff in the bundles, presumably because they think they’re getting designer clothing on the cheap).“People [who] are intellectual leftists, they say I am expensive and horrible, 'How can you sell clothes at the price?' Simply, it's the cost. If you pay people to do everything with the right system, things are expensive. And the same people that criticize the [dangerous production environments], when it comes to cost, they liked the inexpensive pieces because they think it's more democratic. This is an example of hypocrisy.”
—Quoting Miuccia Prada in a National Post article about how fast fashion claims lives and the factory collapse in Bangladesh
H&M to come to Oxmoor Center in Autumn of 2013
louisville.comA dream for Louisville fashionistas is about to come true: Swedish fast fashion retailer H&M will open a store at Oxmoor Center in the fall of 2013. For those who’ve never heard of the chain, however, Louisville.com has the scoop on H&M, from its history to what to expect when the doors open later this year.
