These days the fashion industry is labelled as the second largest polluter to our world after oil. When one thinks about global warming we envision clouds of smoke floating up into the atmosphere, the antarctic melting and rainforests being cut down. We do not consider the clothes we wear. 

The damaging effects on our world through fashion come from a multitude of disciplines such as the farming and creation of materials such as cotton, polyester and nylon, the chemicals and processes used in the dying and printing and the waste produced from the off cut’s of materials and the eventual discarding of clothes. 

Not to mention the unhealthy increase in child labour, that is against the law in most countries, but somehow it is still taking place in poorer parts of the world.

In addition, the increase in the travelling and packaging of clothes due to them being made in the Far East and shipped over to Europe, not only adds to the pollution of the atmosphere but supports the cheap and unethical labour.