#Fast fashion art series#

According to recent fast fashion statistics, Inditex is the leading European fast-fashion company. Louis Vuitton ($14.858 billion) and Adidas ($14.34 billion) are next, with Chanel ($13.24 billion) rounding out the top five. The second-ranked GUCCI is lagging by a wide margin its value in 2021 was $15.6 billion. Nike is continuing its dominance with a brand value of $30.44 billion. Fast fashion statistics show that Nike is still the leading apparel company in terms of brand value. Shein, another of the showвЂ™s sponsors, saw its visits grow by a whopping 117%. Three brands-Missguided, PrettyLittleThing, and BooHoo-had their products featured on the 2018 series, leading to double-digit percentage growths in their visits.

#Fast fashion art series#

Interestingly, this spike in fast fashionвЂ™s popularity had to do with the highly watched reality series Love Island. In the first half of 2018, visits to fast-fashion websites accounted for 66% of all fashion-related internet traffic. Major fast-fashion brands nowadays put out new clothes at a breakneck pace-H&M puts out from 12 to 16 and Zara puts up to 24 new collections per year. In 2011, brands had five new collections on average. As fashion cycles sped up, the number of collections also increased. Twenty years ago, most European fashion brands released two new collections per year. Since 2000, European fashion brands went from releasing just 2 new collections per year to up to 24. During that same timeframe, the global average of purchased clothing items per capita rose by nearly 60%. Thanks to new technologies, materials, and trends, clothing production doubled in the period between 20. Fast-fashion industry statistics show that the fast-fashion cycle is a significant contributor to the apparel industryвЂ™s growth. In the first decade and a half of the 21st century, the production of clothes doubled.ДЄ general increase in production is a marker of modern development in most industries and countries worldwide.

As youвЂ™re about to learn, brands use tremendous resources to speed up the new clothesвЂ™ production cycle and increase the rate at which people purchase new garments. Lift access available.The term вЂњfast fashionвЂќ refers to the speed and rate at which major fashion brands bring the latest trends from high-fashion runways to the stores. Image credit: Tim Mitchell, Mutilated hosiery sorted by colour, 2005.ДЄdmission is free.

Opening speaker вЂ“ fashion editor and author Clare Press.ДЎ9 July 5-6 pm, Sustainable Fashion Futures with Ina Budde & Clare Press, RMIT Brunswick Campus 516.02.05 Lecture Theatre.Дў1 July & 22 July 12-1 pm, Exhibition walkthrough with Luisa Hilmer, assistant curator MKG Hamburg, RMIT Gallery.Дў1 July 1-2 pm, Change making beyond the catwalk with Melinda Tually (Fashion Revolution Australia/NZ), Clare Press & Ina Budde, RMIT Gallery.ДЎ7 August 1-2 pm, Fashion as social business with Sina Trinkwalder, RMIT Gallery.Дў4 August 4-6.30 pm, Fast Forward: Fashion 2030 вЂ“ Meet the designers, RMIT Gallery.ДЇast Fashion is an exhibition of the Museum fГјr Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg in Melbourne and supported by Karin Stilke Stiftung and DBU Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt. Thursday 20 July 6-8 pm Opening night Fast Fashion: the dark side of fashion.