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“Fast Fashion, the underwear of fashion at low prices”, Tuesday March 9, on Arte, at 8.50 pm
Do you know fast fashion?
You will discover ultra-fast fashion, its even cheaper version and at an even greater environmental cost.
This documentary deciphers the stakes of this growing part of the textile industry which has changed our relationship with fashion in less than twenty-five years and raises the figures for a sector representing "
3 trillion dollars
" to "
56 million. tons of clothes sold each year
”.
The road to fast fashion is not very bright, passing from delivery platforms in the Parisian suburbs and their precarious autoentrepreneurs, to sweatshops in Leicester in England and the polluting viscose factories of the Birla group in Madhya Pradesh, India.
What consisted in the pioneer Zara in
"Taking inspiration"
from the high end to make clothing accessible to all has become a formula as lucrative as it is deleterious.
As
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