http://www.lucasfrancisstudio.com/lfs/archives/576 Currently the fashion industry, as the second most polluting industry, faces large-scale problems of social inequality, overproduction and -consumption, climate change, environmental degradation, and human rights abuses. Fast fashion inherently embodies a lack of job security and a living wage, as well as gender-, culture- and race-oriented discrimination. 

Approximately 100 billion new garments are produced every year, of which a fifth go unsold. The increased production and decreased lifespan of clothes cause millions of tonnes of textile waste to be landfilled or incinerated annually, amounting up to one garbage load per second globally.