[Environmental Story in Media] Fast Fashion: The Real Price of Low-cost Fashion
Do you remember the 18th Seoul Eco Film Festival at the beginning of last month? Today, we would like to introduce one of the 64 films that were on-screen during the festival, a documentary movie titled ‘Fast Fashion: The Real Price of Low-cost Fashion’. The theme itself was interesting enough, but we got more excited about the fact that the movie was directed by Gilles Bovon who has made several award-winning documentary films and Edouard Perrin who has worked as a reporter and a journalist for 25 years. Fast fashion is in the same vein as fast food, referring to clothing that is quickly manufactured and distributed reflecting the latest fashion trend. This includes SPA(Specialty store retailer of Private label Apparel) brands that directly manage the whole process from design to sales such as H&M, ZARA, UNIQLO, SPAO. After the World War 2, the industry has become more innovative by spurring on the renovation on manufacturing and supplying process as well as material development...