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Fast fashion is not going away any time soon, so here’s how we change it

Get Gen Z consumers involved in pushing for more sustainable products, and have bricks-and-mortar stores adopt online strategies that make fast fashion so popular

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Shein, which now accounts for half of all US fast-fashion sales, has even caught Washington’s attention.

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.

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