During the presentations of our midterm tri-folds, I was most intrigued by Sophie’s project on fast fashion!
What made her project very unique was that she took the time to create a video of her own. She interviewed people in shopping areas during her time in Spain to see what people knew about fast fashion and its effect on the environment. To sum up the information, she worked with someone else to include a “draw my life” of a piece of fast fashion-clothing. This is relatable to the excerpt in the Bigelow and Swinehart reading, “A City of Factories”. The blurb was short, but it describes the module for the fast fashion industry — which is factory-driven. These cheap pieces of clothing are terrible for the environment and are being pumped out by factories at a miraculous pace. Workers in the factories, many of them from Asian countries are paid very low wages and work in terrible conditions. Sophie’s project was definitely eye-opening because it portrays how the life of fast fashion pieces never truly ends. Although it is nice to spend a small amount on clothing in bulk, there is a large price to pay for the damage it causes to the environment and the effect it has on people who work for the industry.
