If you think fast fashion is bad, check out SHEIN

On Nov 17, 2022

There’s fast fashion – and then there’s SHEIN. The Chinese fashion giant is taking what we thought was already bad to new extremes. They produce ultra-cheap clothes at ultra-fast speed, creating an ultra-big hype on social media. But how do they do it?

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Reporter: Beina Xu
Camera: Henning Goll
Video editor: Thomas Rosenberg
Supervising editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann

The environmental price of fast fashion: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340635670_The_environmental_price_of_fast_fashion

Fashion and the SDGs: what role for the UN? https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/RCM_Website/RFSD_2018_Side_event_sustainable_fashion.pdf

SHEIN, the TikTok of e-commerce:
https://www.notboring.co/p/shein-the-tiktok-of-ecommerce

The shady labour practices underpinning SHEINS global fashion empire:
https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1008472/the-shady-labor-practices-underpinning-sheins-global-fashion-empire

00:00 Intro
01:01 What is SHEIN?
03:27 How does SHEIN do it?
05:10 Environmental impact
06:43 Gen Z’s climate commitment
08:01 What does the future bode for SHEIN?

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