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Fast fashion—the environmental impact

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Published on: 05 April 2019

Published by a LexisNexis Environment expert

Table of contents

‘Fast fashion’—what is it?
Impacts and issues
Recommendations
Challenges
Developing the law
Changing the public opinion
Next steps

Article summary

Environment analysis: Fashion is an industry that has had repeated calls to change the way it operates for the sake of the environment. As part of a series exploring legal issues of ‘fast fashion’, John Buttanshaw, senior associate at Travers Smith LLP and Emily Dorotheou, associate at Mishcon de Reya LLP, consider the environmental and social impact that fast fashion has as well as the Environmental Audit Committee’s report into clothing consumption and sustainability and modern slavery.

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