The world of fast fashion and its impact on society, the environment, and human rights.

Fast Fashion and Its Impact

The author discusses how mainstream fashion can be harmful by promoting stereotypes and excluding marginalized communities based on race, gender, and body size. They argue for more diversity, inclusivity, and representation in the fashion industry to challenge traditional beauty standards and promote acceptance of all individuals.

Intersectionality and Representation

The fashion industry is damaging the environment through its excessive use of resources, pollution, and waste. Sustainable practices are crucial to reduce these harmful effects.
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<li>Excessive resource consumption</li>
<li>Pollution</li>
<li>Waste generation</li>
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Adopting sustainable practices can help mitigate the environmental toll of the fashion industry. #SaveThePlanet ♻️

Fashion and the Environment

The fashion industry often turns a blind eye to the human cost of fast fashion: sweatshop labor, poor working conditions, and exploitation of garment workers in developing countries.
This highlights the need for greater accountability and ethical sourcing practices to ensure the protection of workers' rights and well-being 👀💪.

Social Justice and Human Rights

Many industries, especially fashion, promote consumerism, urging people to constantly buy new trends and discard old items.
This book critiques this mindset and advocates for a shift towards mindful consumption and sustainable fashion, emphasizing quality over quantity and encouraging readers to prioritize long-lasting and ethically produced garments.👗

Consumer Mindset and Sustainable Fashion: A Paradigm Shift

The book envisions a fashion industry that prioritizes environmental stewardship, social justice, and consumer well-being for a more sustainable and equitable future.

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 <li>Key concepts: sustainability, environmental stewardship, social justice, consumer well-being</li>
 <li>Objective: achieve a sustainable and equitable fashion industry</li>
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Looking Towards a Sustainable Future

Key concepts:
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 <li>sustainable fashion</li>
 <li>ethical fashion</li>
 <li>individual choices</li>
 <li>activism</li>
 <li>positive change</li>
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 The fashion industry has issues. But don't feel helpless - you can make a difference! 
 The book teaches you:
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 <li>how to support sustainable and ethical fashion brands</li>
 <li>ways to engage in activism</li>
 <li>how to advocate for positive change</li>
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 Our choices matter - and we can use them to create a better future for fashion and the world. 💪🌎 #sustainablefashion #ethicalfashion #activism #change

The Power of Individual Choices

The world of fast fashion and its impact on society, the environment, and human rights.

*** 'This powerful, speaking-truth-to-power book is an essential read for everybody who wants to stop feeling clueless and helpless about the impacts of cosumerism, and start doing their part to help create a more sustainable world' - Layla Saad 'A critique on what we buy, how it's made and the systems behind it that make an unfair and broken cycle' - New York Times 'The book is a blueprint for anyone who wants to do better' - VOGUE 'SUCH integrity. Aja is no bullsh*t.' - Florence Given 'Consumed takes us through the hideously complex topic of fashion and sustainability, from its knotty colonial roots to what everyday people can do to uproot those systems, today.' - Yassmin Abdel-Magied 'An absolute must-read' - Marie Clare Aja Barber wants change. In the 'learning' first half of the book, she will expose you to the endemic injustices in our consumer industries and the uncomfortable history of the textile industry; one which brokered slavery, racism and today's wealth inequality. And how these oppressive systems have bled into the fashion industry and its lack of diversity and equality. She will also reveal how we spend our money and whose pockets it goes into and whose it doesn't (clue: the people who do the actual work) and will tell her story of how she came to learn the truth. In the second 'unlearning' half of the book, she will help you to understand the uncomfortable truth behind why you consume the way you do. She asks you to confront the sense of lack you have, the feeling that you are never quite enough and the reasons why you fill the aching void with consumption rather than compassion. And she makes you challenge this power disparity, and take back ownership of it. The less you buy into the consumer culture the more power you have. CONSUMED will teach you how to be a citizen not a consumer. 'An absolute must-read' - Red Magazine 'An absolute must-read for any person who wears clothes.' - Orsola de Castro 'A hugely compelling exploration of a culture of exploitation and how, together, we can end it.' - Gina Martin 'Barber's isn't just a voice we should listen to - it is a voice we MUST listen to.' - Clementine Ford 'If you buy one book about sustainable fashion, make it this one. Consumed is an urgent call to action to demand a fashion system that is actually fair for both people and planet, not just Big Fashion billionaires. I adore Aja and I love this brilliant book.' - Venetia La Manna