How to Use fast fashion in a Sentence

fast fashion

noun
  • How long has fast fashion been around and how fast is fast?
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Clothing and the cycles of fast fashion are one of the top polluters on the plant.
    Alyssa Hardy, Teen Vogue, 28 Mar. 2018
  • But over the last year or so, fast fashion has fallen out of style.
    Anne D'innocenzio, baltimoresun.com, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The looks are often a mix of pricier items and fast fashion.
    Madison Malone Kircher, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The pieces are built to last—and to combat the ever-growing wave of fast fashion.
    Lise Nielsen, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 July 2023
  • One of the arguments against fast fashion is that it’s not built to last.
    Faran Krentcil, ELLE, 20 Dec. 2022
  • In the age of TikTok micro-trends and fast fashion, trying is how to break through the noise.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The trend of celebrities wearing something once and the rise of fast fashion go hand in hand, says Holmes.
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2021
  • At the low, fast fashion end of the industry, promises have been made.
    Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2020
  • And with the rise of fast fashion, the amount of secondhand clothing has become a scourge.
    Paula Rogo, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Much of the products sold on Shein and Temu are cheap and range from furniture to fast fashion.
    Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Shein has grabbed the largest share of the fast fashion market in the U.S., at over 50%, according to Temu’s complaint.
    Zen Soo, Fortune, 19 July 2023
  • Does fast fashion have to die for the environment to live?
    Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
  • In fast fashion, people buy something, wear it seven times, and then toss it in the garbage.
    Emily Farra, Vogue, 9 Nov. 2021
  • An example of fast fashion is H&M, with cheap prices and less durable clothes.
    Alexa Buechler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2019
  • The crisis of fast fashion, and how to solve it, is rife for debate and discussion.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Cut back on plastic use and stop indulging in fast fashion.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
  • These are the consequences of living in an era of easy access to fast fashion.
    Lisa Wood Shapiro, refinery29.com, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Like fast fashion for snacks, Nestlé can bring some new Kit Kats to the Japanese market in weeks.
    Erika Fry, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Slow fashion, on the other hand, is the opposite of fast fashion.
    Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 26 Apr. 2023
  • What are the effects of the rise of fast fashion on local and national retail?
    Isa Giallorenzo, Chicago Reader, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Critics said the green mission didn’t match the practices of boohoo, since the brand is known as a fast fashion company.
    Kaitlyn Huamani, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
  • The rise of fast fashion (fuelled by the rise of consumerism) has given way to massive amounts of pollution and waste.
    refinery29.com, 31 Mar. 2020
  • In retail, fast fashion giant Shein is set to go public this year.
    Bruce Gil, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The climb of Kohl’s Plenty of ink has been spilled about the death of the department store, mainly thanks to the onset of fast fashion and online shopping.
    Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Low prices and high speed are two of fast fashion’s distinguishing marks.
    Marc Bain, Quartzy, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Driving all of these things is the corrosive effect of fast fashion.
    Kristin Larson, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2020
  • For $5 to $10, customers could snag crop tops from fast fashion brands like Pretty Little Thing or Zara.
    Morgan Sung, NBC News, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Pierre Hardy and his namesake label are the opposite of fast fashion.
    Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Shein isn’t the only fast-fashion company to tout the benefits of AI in transforming the fast fashion business.
    Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 20 Sep. 2024

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