Fast fashion contributes to climate change. It's built on inequality, worker exploitation, poor quality clothing, consumer culture, and stolen clothing designs.

It is estimated that the global fashion industry generates somewhere between 1.7 and 2.5 trillion US dollars each year.

In 1947, fashion brand Hennes opened in Sweden. It would later merge with Mauritz, and rebrand to Hennes & Mauritz, or as it’s known today, H&M.

Each year, 92 million tonnes of textile waste is produced. That's 202,825,281,210 pounds. Each day, the clothing waste from that day could fill the entire Empire State Building. Each second, a full garbage truck worth of clothing is burned or sent to landfill.

Garment workers are payed as little as... nothing. Forced labour. Modern-day slavery.

The fashion industry is the 2nd most polluting industry in the world, less than no industry other than oil. The fashion industry emits more greenhouse gas emissions than international shipping and aviation combined.

Textile production has doubled over last 15 years, but the amount of time people wear the clothes has dropped 40%.

Shein releases as many as 1.5 million new styles—not items, styles—of clothing each year, skyrocketing itself above traditional fast fashion brands like H&M and Zara.

Cancer-causing cadmium, lead, chromium, and mercury have all been found in azo dyes, which make up the bright colouring in ~70% of clothing. Petroleum and terephthalic acid are both used to make polyester, which is the most widely used clothing fibre in the world.

The average person buys 60% more clothing today than they did in 2000.

Puma is the only brand listed there that has a sustainability rating of above a 2/5 according to Good On You, achieving a 4/5.

The most powerful thing you can do is wear your clothes longer. Wearing your clothes for just nine months longer reduces the carbon footprint for those clothes by up to 30%. Buy less, buy clothing that will last, and wear it longer.

It is estimated that the average thrift store only sells about 20% of all donations it receives. The rest goes to landfill, used clothing brokers who resell the clothing elsewhere, and textile recyclers who repurpose the clothing as insulation, rags, etc.

Fewer than 50 percent of prominent womenswear brands are designed by women, and only 14 percent of major brands have a female executive leading them.

The textile industry represents 10-20% of global pesticide use. On top of this, 20% of industrial water pollution is associated with garment manufacturing.