5 Shopping Tips for Sustainable Style
Sustainable Style: Shopping Tips Fashion isn't typically synonymized with sustainability. To understand why, we need to understand where and how consumers are purchasing apparel and fashion accessories. Apparel retailers with the highest volume of clothing sales in 2020 were Inditex (Zara), Hennes and Mauritz (H&M), and Fast Retailing (Uniqulo). Combined, these retailers reported just over 66 billion U.S. dollars in sales in 2020. The manufacturing processes of the largest apparel retailers can take a design concept from prototype to shelf in under one month; hence: fast fashion. China is a global leader in textile exports, accounting for 43.5 percent of the world's leading textile exporters. Textile manufacturing processes in less regulated countries can be both environmentally taxing and low-wage worker dependent. Some large apparel brands utilize conscious clothing lines to denote apparel created from more sustainable manufacturing processes, as a response to ...