Fast Fashion

Lead-in

  • What do you think of the fashion industry?
  • How important is fashion today compared with in the past? Talk about it.
  • What do you do with clothes you don’t use anymore?
  • What is the most useful article of clothing in your wardrobe? Why?

Presentation 1

Pre?

  • How would you explain globalization?

Top Down

  • What is Fast Fashion? Watch the video and find out.
  • Fast-made female clothes.
  • Cheap, quick, and of questionable quality clothes.
  • Exclusive clothes.
  • Fast-made female clothes.
  • Cheap, quick, and of questionable quality clothes.
  • Exclusive clothes.

Bottom Up

  • True or False

Example: The video is about fast fashion and its effects on society and nature. > True

  1. Fast fashion works with bad working conditions.
  2. The fashion industry today is just a bit different from how it was in the past.
  3. One of every 5 people works in the fashion industry.
  4. Fast fashion means that clothing is disposable, which doesn’t affect the environment.
  5. Even though clothes are recyclable, the amount of clothes that are being produced is more than we can recycle.
  1. Fast fashion works with bad working conditions. True
  2. The fashion industry today is just a bit different from how it was in the past. False
  3. One of every 5 people works in the fashion industry. False
  4. Fast fashion means that clothing is disposable, which doesn’t affect the environment. False
  5. Even though clothes are recyclable, the amount of clothes that are being produced is more than we can recycle. True

Post

  • What comes to mind when you think about a good working environment? 
  • What about a bad one?
  • Do you think that we have a moral obligation to not buy fast fashion clothing? Why or why not?

4 Elements of Fashion

Presentation 2

Pre

  • How can the fashion industry stop affecting the environment?

Top Down

  • How can the video be summarized? Watch it and find out.
  • People should stop buying clothing.
  • Don’t buy less, buy smarter, and also, recycle.
  • It doesn’t matter the number of clothes you buy, as long as you donate them all.
  • People should stop buying clothing.
  • Don’t buy less, buy smarter, and also, recycle.
  • It doesn’t matter the number of clothes you buy, as long as you donate them all.

Bottom Up

  • Fill in the gaps as you watch the video again.

Example: Change it to make something ____. > Change it to make something new.

  1. No one’s going to change the world ____ themselves, but if each person ____ to make small changes, it’s like a revolution.
  2. Fast fashion is the production of an ____ large amount of garments.
  3. Eighty ____ of the carbon footprint of any item is post-____.
  4. Fashion is there to make you feel good and through the search for ease and ____, we’ve ____ of lost that sense of human instinct.
  5. You’ve got something that has got a ____ on it, make a deal out of it, like, you know, ____ it an obvious stain or make it ____.
  1. No one’s going to change the world by themselves, but if each person starts to make small changes, it’s like a revolution.
  2. Fast fashion is the production of an unnecessarily large amount of garments.
  3. Eighty percent of the carbon footprint of any item is post-purchase.
  4. Fashion is there to make you feel good and through the search for ease and convenience, we’ve kind of lost that sense of human instinct.
  5. You’ve got something that has got a stain on it, make a deal out of it, like, you know, make it an obvious stain or make it intentional.

Post

  • What are things produced on a large scale that you buy?
  • Did your opinion about the “fast industry” change after watching the videos? How so?