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Shein's pop-up store in Paris. The brand now accounts for half of all US fast-fashion sales.
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This past week marked a decade since the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh killed 1,134 people, a majority of them female garment factory workers.
The workers who died in the accident toiled for long hours on low wages, making clothes that were purchased by customers from fast-fashion brands that sourced them from the garment factories of Rana Plaza.
