Fast Fashion Industry | Argumentative Essay

Running head: FAST FASHION INDUSTRY
FAST FASHION INDUSTRY
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Argumentative essay
Fast fashion is identified as the inexpensive designs that are promoted straight from
catwalk to stores in order to score in making it a new trend. The contemporary trend is further
identified as shortening of lead-time and offering products of low cost to the business market.
The idea therefore has led to various issues and has changed the mentality of the customers in
their purchasing behaviour especially in the developed countries. Moreover, fast fashion also
result severe impacts on the environment as well as on the workers of the industry.
The thesis aims to deliver an in depth analysis on the topic “Should fast-fashion
stores (i.e. H&M, Zara) be banned by the Canadian government?” in an argumentative
structure by using three sources in the following paragraph. To support the statement, that
Canadian government should ban the fast fashion industry, the essay focuses on providing
concrete justification for both the sides of why and why not. The first paragraph facilitates an
insight on the consequences and implications of the garment industry in the global text along
with the explanation of human rights that are related to this industry. The second paragraph
develops argument on the economic models and theories in terms of the unethical business
practices. The third paragraph shows the contradictory picture with respect to the statement in
support, describing how brand like Zara gains sustainability success and leads in retaining the
demand of contemporary fast fashion industry. The paper establishes its point in the
conclusion through an argumentative framework and exposes the topic, why fast-fashion
stores (ie. H&M, Zara) should be banned by the Canadian government.
The paragraph aims to deliver how a contemporary trend in global perspective of
garment industry opposes the values of ethics and human rights. “The jet plane, the
telephone, and the Internet give you a global society with the transnational corporation and
World Economic Forum.” As stated by Peter Singer, he emphasizes on the rise of global

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followers due to the revolution of communication. And further it is put forward in the
perspective of global economy that is, due to the globalization of economy through flexible
communications, the states retains the bond and valued connections (van Ree, pg. 6- 54).
However, in the process, it is to mention that the ethical need are to be served with
accordance. As per the reports, it is observed that the dilemma of fast fashion create global
justice issues through the changes made in international laws based on human rights, and the
laws which are represented by fast fashion organization or companies. For instance, European
states for years and decades were able to hide behind the protectionism and took advantage
from uneven dealings of trade and business. However, in the context of fast fashion industry,
the popularity increased by evaluation of the positions of the retailers in the market, putting
more stress on the forecasting that minimizes the lead time and also by creating their
independent brands (van Ree, pg. 6- 54). This eventually led to the popularity explosion. The
criticism highlights the matter that overconsumption leads to excessive waste. Selling off the
garments in less money increased the demands that resulted to an immense downward
pressure on the workers of garment industry. Such situations leads to the production of
inferior quality of clothes and even many defects are seen in the production (van Ree, pg. 6-
54). In addition in the context of environmental factors, the waste produced in the
environment is increasing order. For instance, the U.S alone discards 85% of the textile
production that leads to the generation of 21 billion pounds of garment waste per year (van
Ree, pg. 6- 54). It further accounts to be one of the lowing recycling rates in terms of reusing
the materials.
The second paragraph provides the fast fashion records that has produced
unsustainable landscape in the context of global trade and further proves to produce global
health risk through industrial pollution. It is to mention that about 40% of garments are made
of cotton. Following it, in the making of cotton clothes, it requires 500 gallons of water,