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🗓️ 26 August 2025
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| 0:54.6 | This is open to debate. I'm John Donvan. Hi, everybody. This week we're taking a look at a past debate just in time for the sales that we'll be popping up on Labor Day weekend. And before influencers, fashion designers, and magazines place their eyes on what's coming down the runway for New York Fashion Week. |
| 0:59.5 | Our particular focus is on a part of the scene that didn't really exist until relatively recently. |
| 1:06.0 | Fast fashion. Fast fashion is the practice by some manufacturers of very quickly producing new lines of clothing based on what is just becoming hot and hip, and getting those items into stores with amazing speed |
| 1:12.0 | and offering them all at amazingly low prices. |
| 1:15.4 | Shoppers, especially younger shoppers, |
| 1:17.3 | are buying this stuff up and wearing it proudly, |
| 1:20.1 | but not necessarily wearing it out. |
| 1:22.8 | Rather, they keep going back for more and more new stuff |
| 1:25.3 | because it is new, and there is always something |
| 1:28.3 | new, just hitting the stores. So what is the debate? It's about who is really winning and |
| 1:33.1 | losing in this process, because on the one hand, fast fashion gives lots of people a chance to be |
| 1:38.5 | in style in a way that they can afford. There's lots of choice and there's access if you're in a |
| 1:43.0 | market that delivers fast fashion. |
| 1:44.7 | But it's also being argued that the prices are so low because the workers making the clothing |
| 1:49.7 | are being exploited and that the environment is suffering, owing to all of these clothes, not being |
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