Report: Ugly Beautiful? Fashion Industry Analysis and Ethics

This report provides a critical analysis of the article "Ugly beautiful? Counting the cost of a global fashion industry" published by the Geographical Association. It delves into the fashion industry's global impact, examining the roles of aesthetics, ethics, and politics. The report explores objectivity and subjectivity within the article, discusses the evidence presented, and includes a section on Chelsea's opinion. It covers the structure of the article, its strengths in highlighting the fashion industry's expansion and ethical considerations, and weaknesses such as overlooking consumer demands. The analysis also includes a discussion of the fashion commodity chain and its impact on consumer awareness. The report concludes that the article is important for its examination of the complexities of clothing supply and retailing and its identification of solutions related to the fashion industry. It references several academic sources to support its claims.

Critical Thinking

Contents
Main body........................................................................................................................................3
Objectivity..............................................................................................................................3
Subjectivity.............................................................................................................................3
Discussion of evidence...........................................................................................................3
Structure.................................................................................................................................4
Chelsea’s opinion...................................................................................................................4
Agree with the article agreed..................................................................................................4
Argument................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6
Books and journals.................................................................................................................6

Introduction
The article which is taken in the given report is Ugly beautiful? Counting the cost of a global
fashion industry. This article is published by Geographical association. The writer of this article
is Louise Crewe. It is such a high functioning global fashion industry. In addition, it exposes the
power and impact that is held by giants which are situated in the worldwide of high fashion. This
paper will cover about the thinking of geographically about fashion (Alacovska, Fieseler, and
Wong, 2021). It is discussion of the clothes that how they are being reflect on who makes their
clothes and why dos a person buy and wear clothes and how to person think about the value of a
lies in a garment. This report covers objectivity and subjectivity, then there is a discussion of
evidence nd at last it consists of Chelsea’s opinion.
Main body
Objectivity
The objectivity of this article is that it studies about fashions and how this fashion is
affected by the aesthetics, ethics and politics. In this article the following article talks about the
fashion and complex connection that has been faced by customer in production, retailing and
wearing if the clothes. The objectivity of this article how fashion garments are affected by ethics.
It depends on the customer preferences and their demands and their latest trends which are
coming in the market.
Subjectivity
The subjectivity of this article is that it shows how a global map of supply of clothing and
retailing expose the complicity as consumers in production (Bug, Bessler and Bendix, 2020).
Fashion industry is affected by polities as if government system has changes then there will be
problems in designing, production, consumption and retailing of the services.
Discussion of evidence
Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste or art
of philosophy. Aesthetics is related with the fashion industry as there is a requirement of artists
who can bring various verities of designs and cultural ethics that could helps the customer in
fulfilling their demands and needs. In context of this article, it is discussed that geographical
significance of fashion and this made think that the power and responsibilities as global

consumers. There is a discussion of ideas that are being used in the fashion industry like
developing idea of lifecycle, making use of digital technologies and economic and political;
significance of consumption.
Structure
This article is strong because it tells various use of fashion industry and how the fashion
industry is globally expanding. Now fashion industry is affected by ethics and behaviour and
politics because if government will not give them permission to expand then this will result in
decreasing of the profits of the company and industry (Laham, 2020). Then this article is
suggested to be strong to the public because it gets the information of ethics. That ethics are
being ignored in retail sectors and this aggravates anxiety in the minds of customers. It is disused
that fashion commodity chain has series of discrete and distant places. It enables manager in the
company to make customer aware about the products and designs which are coming in the
market.
Chelsea’s opinion
Agree with the article agreed
Yes, this article is a because this provides information and details about the people and
fashion industry that how they could be well affected by the certain factors. As from my point of
view, this article is agreed because there it talks about how customer is choosing its products
such as clothes when they go for shopping in a mall or a shop. It consists of variety uses also
which are coming in near future in fashion industry (Mears, 2020). This is agreed that customer
at the time of shopping does not more think about the cost, but they think about the brand,
fashion, fit and reasonability.
Argument
It is argued on this article in its against and for both. In context of favour, the author is more
focusing on the cost of fashion industry. As customer does not more think about the cost, they
think about brand, fashion and fitting etc. ethics are being most considered in the company or
industry because of these are not followed then customer will not purchase the products and
services provided by company (Naukkarinen, 2020). In context of against, the author has made
some mistakes in making this article as if company will not follow the demands of customer then

they could not able to attract customers and their profitability will go in loss. Also, sometimes in
fashion industry the cost of cheap products is high so this cannot be affordable by customer.
Conclusion
From the above report it has been concluded that it is based on the article called Ugly
beautiful? Counting the cost of a global fashion industry. This is to be considered as a most
important article because it talks about how the global maps of clothing supply and retailing
exposes the complexities of customers in the production of intensely unfit visuals of fashion.
This article is considered as the most important and author has identifies various solutions related
to fashion industry.

References
Books and journals
Alacovska, A., Fieseler, C. and Wong, S.I., 2021. ‘Thriving instead of surviving’: A capability
approach to geographical career transitions in the creative industries. Human
Relations, 74(5), pp.751-780.
Bug, P., Bessler, L. and Bendix, J., 2020. Fashion and Fashion Advertisement in TV—Study
Germany. In Fashion and Film (pp. 29-57). Springer, Singapore.
Laham, M., 2020. Made Up: How the Beauty Industry Manipulates Consumers, Preys on
Women's Insecurities, and Promotes Unattainable Beauty Standards. Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers.
Mears, A., 2020. Very important people: Status and beauty in the global party circuit. Princeton
University Press.
Naukkarinen, O., 2020. Aesthetics as Space. Aalto korkeakoulusäätiö.