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# fast fashion

This year
2023
# Your Say
Poll: Have you ever used SHEIN?
Have your say.
30.3k
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Jul 7th 2023, 11:31 AM
Voices
Barry Andrews: From spyware to SHEIN, Ireland’s business reputation is now in the crosshairs
The Irish MEP says Ireland is fast becoming the ‘best little country’ for controversial brands to set up shop in.
21.8k
14
Jul 5th 2023, 7:00 AM
# Asos
Fast fashion firm Asos secures €86 million fundraising to support turnaround plan
It comes after Asos earlier this month revealed losses of more than €334 million for the half-year to February.
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May 26th 2023, 12:28 PM
# What To Know
“There is no perfect way to be sustainable”: Interview with Taz Kelleher of The Useless Project
Taz Kelleher, co-founder of The Useless Project, shares advice on living more sustainably.
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May 24th 2023, 9:24 PM
Voices
Barry Andrews: SHEIN is setting up a headquarters in Ireland - this should not be applauded
The MEP looks at the controversial brand and says fast fashion cannot be encouraged on any level in a climate crisis.
30.3k
20
May 12th 2023, 12:03 PM
# whitewash
Owner of Zara and Bershka reports €4.1 billion net profit despite fast fashion scrutiny
Retail giants are under growing pressure for their role in the climate crisis and workers’ rights abuses.
15.7k
5
Mar 15th 2023, 2:18 PM
Last year
2022
# Your Say
Poll: Do you regularly buy second-hand clothes?
Love Island contestants will be wearing only preloved outfits this year.
31.2k
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May 31st 2022, 10:07 AM
All time
Voices
Opinion: 'We can't export our way out of our fast fashion addiction'
Caitriona Rogerson highlights the social and environmental cost of the second-hand clothing trade on African countries.
12.4k
4
Nov 10th 2021, 8:00 PM
Voices
Opinion: Cheap clothes are cheap clothes, but fast fashion is the real environmental problem
Carolyn Moore says the government’s Waste Action Plan rightly tackles fast fashion – which encourages mass consumerism, exploitation and waste – but says that doesn’t mean cheap clothes are in the firing line.
35.7k
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Sep 9th 2020, 7:56 AM
Voices
Saoirse McHugh: Fast fashion is hard to escape, but it is damaging our environment
There is no room, environmentally or socially, for fast fashion anymore, writes Saoirse McHugh of the Green Party.
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38
Oct 13th 2019, 8:30 PM
# fast fashion
What is ‘fast fashion’ and how is it getting one up on Kim Kardashian?
And why we should be thinking twice about some of our purchases.
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Feb 14th 2019, 4:40 PM
# sustainable fashion
Love Fashion but hate the environmental cost? Swapsies is the Irish Solution
Fast fashion is becoming slower thanks to Irish gal Clodagh Kelly.
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Nov 17th 2018, 8:00 PM
# Très Chic
How to dress like a French woman this autumn
Looking this effortless takes a lot of effort, but we’ve cracked the French fashion formula
36.5k
3
Oct 22nd 2018, 8:00 AM
# sustainable fashion
The scéal behind Siopaella: Dublin's hidden gem for sustainable fashion
If our gal crush Aisling Bea is into sustainable fashion then we are too.
7.0k
0
Sep 16th 2018, 9:30 PM
Voices
'I needed to end my fast-fashion fix and get a grip. Here's how I did it'
Actress Aoibhéann McCann writes about her passion to avoid ‘fast fashion’ at all costs – and how it’s affecting our environment catastrophically as one of the biggest global polluters.
40.0k
5
Aug 15th 2018, 7:00 AM
# Your Say
Poll: Do you make an effort to not buy fast fashion?
Cheap, disposable clothing has a big environmental impact.
19.7k
54
Feb 27th 2018, 9:35 AM
Voices
Be a better shopper: Fast fashion kills people, animals and our environment
Our addiction to ‘fast fashion’ is having a detrimental impact on the environment, animal welfare and human rights, writes Siobhan O’Brien-Selway.
2.1k
15
Jan 4th 2017, 7:15 AM
# Ooh la la
Thought Ireland loved Penneys? The fashion-conscious French are lapping it up
The country has been a fertile feeding ground for the budget clothing chain.
20.2k
7
Sep 7th 2015, 10:46 AM
# fast fashion
Primark says that hidden message stitched onto a dress label was a hoax
A woman found a note on her dress saying ‘Forced to work exhausting hours’.
24.5k
54
Jun 27th 2014, 3:24 PM
# fast fashion
Shopper discovers 'hidden message' stitched on to Primark dress
The hand-stitched label has raised more questions about Primark’s ethics.
135k
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Jun 23rd 2014, 6:00 PM
# Sweatshops
Fast fashion, fair wage: What Vietnam can teach Bangladesh
Vietnam – working on improving technology, conditions and pay – is proving more attractive to brands who want to protect their consumer reputation.
12.4k
14
May 5th 2013, 9:15 AM