YT YouTube2Text

YouTube2Text → Transcripts → fast fashion the shady world of cheap clothing dw documentary

fast fashion the shady world of cheap clothing dw documentary — Transcript

by 范志铭 · 4,516 words · 793 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

Open in transcriber Summarize with AI Download SRT/VTT

Full transcript

0:02[Music]
0:08they may seem like great deals but there
0:10is a high cost to fast
0:26fashion the term fast fashion has become
0:30word for kind of Dody
0:32practices fast fashion is a huge
0:34business and one that does not
0:36appreciate prying
0:38eyes fast fashion has engendered a rise
0:42in informality a rise in
0:44precarity the turnaround from design to
0:47the finished product must be as fast as
0:49possible the whole process from order to
0:51delivery 12
0:54days with factories located in the heart
0:57of
0:58Britain I will be paid how much after 2
1:02weeks 3 3 per hour
1:06yeah the textile industry has a huge
1:09environmental impact actually they are
1:12just physical disabled she is only 26
1:15year
1:19old the story of this pretty little
1:22dress exposes the Dark Side of cheap
1:28fashion
1:30[Music]
1:45our planet is being swamped in clothes
1:47with some 56 million tons sold every
1:52year the number sold in Europe has
1:55doubled since the turn of the
1:58millennium
2:00[Music]
2:03today the textile industry is valued at
2:06about3
2:08trillion it has grown exponentially
2:11there's some numbers that say it's
2:12quintuple in volume it's absolutely
2:15crazy the figures that I have seen uh
2:18estimate that by 2030 the industry will
2:20expand by an additional
2:2460% with production costs continuing to
2:27fall and new collections made at an Ever
2:29FAS rate customers can constantly
2:32refresh their
2:35wardrobes fast fashion is the Commerce
2:38of very inexpensive clothing that you
2:41are expected or you are ready to replace
2:46very rapidly it's very typical for uh
2:50the fashion forward buyer to never wear
2:53an outfit that they purchased you will
2:55wear something once or twice or maybe
2:58never
3:04mass-produced cheap clothes are a
3:06disaster for the environment how could
3:08this be allowed to
3:11happen among the leaders in disposable
3:13fashion is a once small Spanish brand
3:16that's become a global giant of the
3:19industry Zara now has more than 2,000
3:22stores in almost 100
3:26countries Zara launches 65,000 new
3:30products every year traditional
3:32manufacturers normally have closer to
3:355,000 so that's over 10 times the number
3:3965,000 new products equals 200 models
3:42per day every month they replace 3/4 of
3:45their collection competitors do it more
3:47like every four to 5
3:51months zaro was founded in La karunia
3:55Galicia in Northwestern Spain a world
3:58away from the country's fashion capitals
4:00Madrid and
4:02Barcelona launa is the capital of the
4:05region and home to Zara's parent company
4:12inditex the label Zara bashka
4:15Stradivarius and masimo DTI can all be
4:18found here Under One
4:24Roof in 2016 it hosted the 80th birthday
4:28celebrations for Z as
4:30founder Amano Orga heads an Empire
4:34spanning 7 and a half thousand branches
4:37with
4:38170,000
4:40employees total annual profits over3
4:43billion
4:47EUR Ortega is one of the richest people
4:50on the
4:52planet and one who is famously media
4:58shy for this film as well he declined to
5:01give an
5:05interview in order to outpace the
5:08competition Zara established a unique
5:11system it oversees the entire chain of
5:14operations from the textile factories to
5:17the retail outlets enabling it to
5:19maximize the speed of
5:25production Zara needs 4 weeks from the
5:28moment they decide on a new model until
5:30the day it arrives in stores with Rivals
5:32it's more a matter of 5 6 or 8 months
5:35every week there's something new to
5:37discover the range of items changes at
5:39such a pace that it encourages Shoppers
5:41to come back the feeling of potentially
5:43missing out means that Zara customers
5:45visit stores 17 times a year whereas
5:47with the competition it's only three or
5:49four
5:52times it's rare for former Zara
5:55employees to reveal Secrets behind the
5:57Spanish Giants machinations
6:01this French designer spent 3 years
6:03working for
6:04index she designed jeans for bashka a
6:08label which targets a younger
6:13centel everything is engineer to
6:16minimize time La it's so obviously a
6:18case of copy and
6:21paste that's part of the reason why I
6:23left eventually it was too
6:28much that extreme time pressure makes it
6:31impossible to produce truly original
6:35items so the designers go on undercover
6:38missions to see what the competition has
6:41on
6:47offer all designers travel to get
6:50inspiration so for Zara we go shopping
6:52at high-end boutiques and classic
6:54fashion houses so as not to miss out on
6:56the latest
6:58trends we'd buy items that we thought
7:00were crucial and examined them in terms
7:02of shapes fabrics and
7:05colors and if we had something that met
7:07our three
7:09criteria you tried to copy it
7:13yes designers buy items of interest and
7:17then adapt them into lowcost versions
7:20under very precise
7:26specifications we had copyright training
7:28sessions several times a year to make
7:30sure we didn't make one toone
7:33copies you had to have at least seven
7:35points of difference to avoid getting
7:37sued you had to create differences
7:41exactly it's hard to follow fashion
7:43trends and not copy them a real
7:46balancing
7:50act now and again some of those small
7:53fashion labels try to fight back and sue
7:56the
7:58corporation
8:00but they rarely
8:11succeed one manufacturer refused to
8:14agree to a financial settlement rains
8:18the Danish company manufactures
8:20raincoats sold in over 20
8:28countries
8:30these are yeah these are the evidence
8:35yeah founder Daniel bricks designed the
8:38Brand's biggest success this green
8:42raincoat well this was actually one of
8:44the pictures we did uh when we
8:46discovered the the the copy in the
8:48market so here we have two twins wearing
8:51the same jacket fortunately one of the
8:54twins bought the sarra jacket and uh the
8:56other T have the original range jacket
9:02on the right the original on the left
9:05the cheaper Edition from
9:07[Music]
9:09Zara the design has been stolen for sure
9:13I don't even kind of understand the
9:15motivation of doing something which is
9:16so similar since it's so easy to do
9:18something which is a bit different like
9:21everybody else do but in this case they
9:23have made a product which is oneon-one
9:24the
9:28same a clear example of a copy without
9:31the seven stipulated
9:33differences an error that should not
9:36have happened after all the firm's legal
9:38department can reject a garment it deems
9:41too
9:46risky every time we made a logo or a
9:48print we'd show it to the legal people
9:51and usually it was
9:53approved but sometimes we'd get feedback
9:55saying be careful it's too similar and
9:58then the had to be reworked it drove our
10:01graphic design team
10:06crazy a legal battle with index can be a
10:10pricey
10:11undertaking but Reigns is a successful
10:14brand the Danish company decided to take
10:17the risk and sue for
10:21plagiarism while a case like this cannot
10:24be done for for less than €300,000 and
10:27even more than that so it's it's It's
10:29relatively
10:30expensive we hired in private detectives
10:33in China to find out informations about
10:36the whole process of applicating our
10:38products we have two factories
10:40confirming that they were instructed
10:43through an production agent that they
10:45were to make the same jacket as ours for
10:48this customer Sarah in in
10:52Spain in the spring of 2020 3 years
10:56after the suit was submitted zaro was
10:58found found guilty by a Danish
11:01Court it had to reimburse commercial
11:04damages and agree not to imitate Reign
11:07products
11:08[Music]
11:16again clothes make people more the case
11:19today than seldom before around half of
11:23all Instagram posts are connected to
11:25fashion and beauty products kamikon is a
11:29social media star who posts new photos
11:31and videos daily for her followers under
11:34the pseudonym
11:39[Music]
11:46[Music]
11:52noita here we have
11:54Asos
11:56Zara
11:57naked and some nasty gal
12:00jeans 80% of my wardrobe is fast
12:04fashion I've always been a shopping
12:06addict and I love to change my outfits
12:08around when I see something I order it I
12:11have to have it right away and don't
12:12want to wait for
12:16it this reflexive impulse to buy is no
12:20coincidence it is specifically triggered
12:23in certain areas of the
12:27brain this is the field of research of
12:29the American psychologist Alexander
12:33janeski he's an expert in
12:39[Music]
12:44neuroeconomics there's an area that is
12:47just about here that is called the
12:48ventral strum or the nucleus succumbs
12:51and this is a part of the brain that is
12:53often associated with reward processing
12:55or positive emotions so most of the
12:57things that we care about are how
12:58positively someone is responding to a
13:00product or um a firm or a brand would be
13:04uh represented by activity in this
13:07region the more manufacturers know about
13:09the way our minds work the more they can
13:12influence our purchasing
13:14Behavior fast fashion triggers our
13:17brains reward circuit with the primary
13:20factor being the
13:24price here for example you can see
13:26something that cost around €1 15
13:31I'm wearing an nastal sweatshir and
13:32jeans from boohoo I think the sweater
13:34costs around2 and the pant's
13:3630 if the price is particularly low
13:40specifically if if it's low compared to
13:42what you're used to seeing or
13:43Alternatives in the marketplace it can
13:45actually be seen as a positive aspect or
13:48part of the appeal of a product you see
13:49it less as having to sacrifice that
13:52amount of money but more that you are
13:54getting something and able to save much
13:56more than you would have had to pay
13:58otherwise
14:00sure the lower the price the more things
14:02you put in your basket and you end up
14:05with more than you
14:06planned that's the
14:09Trap low prices limited edition
14:12Collections and no end of stimuli and
14:15incentives above all via social
14:19media fast fashion is abandoning
14:22traditional advertising due to its high
14:24cost and limited scope for targeting
14:27specific groups instead companies now
14:30recruit influencers like
14:36noita now you go from a company telling
14:39you why you should be interested in a
14:41product to an individual that you aspire
14:44to be or you really like it seems like
14:46these people are talking directly to you
14:48and recommending these
14:50products influencers are the stars of
14:53this new form of advertising where every
14:56fan or follower is a potential customer
14:59the higher the profile of an influencer
15:01the more money they earn noita can earn
15:03up to 5,000 for one video
15:07[Music]
15:10alone it's been a big change for Brands
15:12because we sell their products so they
15:14spend increasingly larger budgets on
15:16influencers because we're bound to sell
15:18something on Instagram we can even post
15:20links so all add links to a dress or
15:23shoes so afterwards people end up on the
15:25vendor's website and we get paid
15:27according to the sales were made via
15:29these
15:31links we spend an average of 2 to three
15:34hours a day on our smartphones one in
15:37two users has a shopping
15:40[Music]
15:44app the internet is the new mall when
15:47you're looking at a young generation
15:48where it shops constantly constantly
15:51shops you're constantly online and
15:54you're constantly clicking and your
15:56credit card is memorized by your smart
15:58device and you click on something and
16:00you click and it comes to your
16:02house the traditional leaders in fast
16:05fashion have had to re-evaluate their
16:07strategy model in response to the
16:10success of companies that sell
16:11exclusively online they are faster and
16:15cheaper and are the inventors of ultra
16:18fast
16:19fashion boohoo is one of these new
16:22online Giants in 2019 the turnover of
16:26this British brand approached 1 billion
16:30it has its own Flagship label in
16:33addition to others including pretty
16:35little
16:42[Music]
16:49[Music]
16:52thing the boohoo website features this
16:55dress for
16:56€9 the kind of price where you might
16:59assume it was made in an Asian
17:04Factory this garment however was made in
17:12Europe to be exact in Leicester a city
17:16with a population of some 300,000 people
17:19in the English
17:22Midlands until the 1970s it was a hub of
17:26the British clothing industry expor in
17:28its textile products all over the
17:32world thousands of workers were employed
17:35in large scale
17:38[Music]
17:42factories the textile sector has
17:45returned to Leicester albeit with
17:47working conditions normally associated
17:49with the developing
17:51world a clerin world in which cameras
17:54are not
17:57welcome
18:14once people see with camera there will
18:16be 100 phone calls in Lester in within
18:1915 minutes now the man permitting us to
18:22film is s
18:24kji originally from Pakistan he's one of
18:27the Cities most successful
18:34entrepreneurs this is a factory where we
18:36are making garments how many people are
18:39working we have 92 people 92 people
18:42working and this is one of the biggest
18:43Factory in leester
18:47yeah all fast fashion coming from
18:49leester and leester has
18:52great manufacturing capacity that nobody
18:55has in UK not even in UK nobody has in
18:59whole Europe leester can deliver any
19:02garments within unbelievable delivery
19:04time Lester is master of fashion
19:14garments manufacturers partly returned
19:17to Leicester due to its location in
19:19central England which on the logistical
19:22front means saving
19:24time and time is very much a factor for
19:27S Ki
19:29in addition to developing his own label
19:32he also supplies British fast fashion
19:36brands so the whole process from order
19:39to delivery it's uh 12 days this is the
19:44unique point of Lester of our industry
19:46here that we can do quick fast service
19:49quick delivery the fabric is available
19:52here all the time so if the customer
19:54need it very urgently we can provide
19:56them within two weeks times but you
19:58cannot lose one day we cannot lose one
20:01hour forget one day the this is hour we
20:04are calculating hours and minutes here
20:07not
20:09days clothing designed produced and
20:12delivered within 2
20:18weeks that's twice as fast as Zara and
20:21it unbeatable
20:25prices but that efficiency comes at a
20:27high
20:29price the factory district with its
20:32opaque system of subcontractors has
20:34become a lawless
20:43Zone we have few number of very powerful
20:46brands or retailers buyers at the top
20:50that place orders to a very large number
20:53of smaller manufacturers that chase
20:57smaller orders do every day obviously
21:00engenders competition and pushes prices
21:03down for manufacturers It's always
21:06important to take any order they can get
21:10even if they don't have the capacity to
21:12fulfill the order and that is part of
21:15the problem they have to subcontract it
21:18and often they subcontract it to second
21:21or third tier factories where working
21:25conditions are of a much lower standard
21:28than they might be in the first tier
21:33[Applause]
21:36manufacturer as can be seen all over the
21:38city there's no shortage of vacancies
21:41for all jobs in the production
21:45process Tanya is a journalist equipped
21:49with a hidden camera she goes undercover
21:51for a look inside the clothes factories
21:53of
21:57Leicester
21:58I'm looking for a job do you know if
22:00somebody here is looking for somebody I
22:03learn very quickly so I'm I looking for
22:04a little job I don't P je you win how
22:08many down here in Great Britain yeah
22:10only for some weeks so do you know
22:12somebody who is looking for sound
22:14Walkers you know it's TI when we here
22:18it's good work no problem okay okay but
22:22this one is Cash no transer money you
22:25know any problem any no problem
22:28[Applause]
22:31[Music]
22:38the windows are covered up it's the
22:40middle of winter and there's no heating
22:43the boss insists on a trial period
22:46without
22:48[Music]
22:53pay you can just one two week learning
22:57ladies
22:58after 2 weeks 3 3 L per hour
23:04yeah 3 per hour is below the statutory
23:08minimum wage in Britain in fact less
23:11than half of
23:13it how much hours should they what you
23:16like no problem 10 12 or
23:1814 even 14 yeah no problem he's openon
23:22so I can uhy no problem at what time
23:26should I come here every morning 8:00
23:29okay 6:00 8:00 till 6:00 okay I will try
23:35this one it's not easy Tanya's training
23:37comprises a brief demonstration on a
23:40sewing machine but I have two weeks to
23:43learn it to learn to bre this one is
23:46Topia and what is
23:49this skirt skirt
23:52okay soon novice seamstress Tanya is
23:56making skirts without
23:58[Music]
24:07pay the skirts will be sold online by a
24:11major fast fashion
24:13label pretty little
24:16things pretty little
24:22things pretty little thing belongs to
24:25the boohoo group The skirts SE by Tanya
24:28will sell for €1 15 a
24:30[Music]
24:38piece it's barely 1: p.m. when suddenly
24:42work stops orders have dried
24:46up workers employed on an hourly basis
24:50are sent home with no compensation
24:55pay fast fashion has engendered a rise
24:59in informality a rise in precarity
25:02workers essentially work on a system of
25:06informal Zero Hour contracts so they
25:09never have a contract so see you
25:11tomorrow yeah see you tomorrow bye
25:17bye the factories in Leicester have a
25:20bad reputation prompting many labels to
25:22shift production elsewhere but not the
25:25boohoo group with pretty little thing a
25:28label very much on the
25:31rise in 2019 its sales doubled to a
25:35total of almost 400 million
25:39[Music]
25:48[Music]
25:56e pretty little thing declined a request
25:59for an interview so we headed for the
26:01opening of its Parisian showroom to
26:04speak to its
26:07CEO Umar kamani is the son of the
26:10founder of buho Mahmud kamani the
26:14company has made him a
26:16billionaire surrounded by his bodyguards
26:19Kanani Jor Revels in the pop star like
26:24attention we're all thing we want to be
26:26more than a fashion web right we want to
26:28be a Lifestyle brand we want to give
26:31good um meaning to the customer you know
26:34good values if you have a daughter uh we
26:36think pretty little things should
26:38Inspire girls in the right
26:41way I've got a dress here it's address
26:44it's
26:4515 how are you able to do add dress 15
26:49in It's Made in the UK how do you do
26:51this yeah we I'm not answering this
26:54question why I don't want to why it's
26:57your dress yeah it's PLT how do you do
26:59this I don't answer the question why why
27:03I don't have to answer a question do I
27:05no I'm just asking a simple question how
27:07is it ask somebody else but you're the
27:10bus no ask somebody
27:13else we we know this dress is made by uh
27:18workers that are paid half half the
27:20minimum
27:21wage we know
27:23that how how do you address
27:26this
27:34[Music]
27:37over stop
27:41keep keep
27:50keep after this eventful meeting we
27:53received a statement from pretty little
27:55thing all textile work workers a pretty
27:58little thing are treated fairly and
28:00receive at least the minimum
28:02[Music]
28:17wage producing clothes at such a low
28:20price comes at a high environmental
28:23cost the textile industry is the second
28:26biggest polluter in the the world after
28:29[Music]
28:33oil per one part one ton of fabric as we
28:38call it 200 tons of water polluted so 1
28:42to 200 is the ratio the more Commerce
28:46there is the more pollution there's
28:48going to be without efficient filtration
28:51and cleanup technology if the fashion
28:53industry is going to expand by an
28:55additional 60% in the next 10 years then
29:00we're going to get 60% more
29:05pollution under the pressure of public
29:07opinion the textile industry is trying
29:09to
29:10Rebrand at trade shows the color of
29:13choice is
29:14green organic sustainable recyclable
29:18green fashion is in
29:26trend
29:31and one particular fabric embodies this
29:34shift visco cheap artificial silk
29:38popular with fast fashion
29:40brands this red dress from Asos and the
29:43snake print design from boohoo are made
29:45of 95%
29:52Visos so this is the
29:56wood
29:58from here you make the
30:00pulp and from there you make
30:05fiber so that's Vos the sosic fiber and
30:10from here it became yarn from yarn to
30:12fabric the process it takes from where
30:16you Source the wood the kind of
30:20certifications you fall into all that
30:22put together helps you a nature-based
30:25product yeah Visos is more
30:30eco-friendly Visos is only manufactured
30:33by a handful of companies around the
30:36world among them is the adre baa group a
30:40$40 billion Indian
30:43conglomerate index H&M Asos all the big
30:47names by their Visos from
30:50baa we believe that the planet comes
30:53first our philosophy of forest of
30:56fashion ensures that while Visos
30:59according to biller is a blessing that
31:02what's good for the planet is what's
31:05good for
31:08us but transforming wood into fabric
31:12requires a huge amount of
31:15chemicals one of the most dangerous is a
31:17highly toxic solvent carbon disulfide or
31:25CS2 well it's marketed as a green
31:28product is it basically a
31:32lie yes it's an extremely interesting
31:37[Music]
31:39poison the danger emanates from the
31:42fumes produced to give the Visos its
31:45threadlike texture CS2 is added to the
31:48wood pulp which is then immersed in a
31:50bath of sulfuric
31:54acid the minute it hits sulfuric acid
31:57the carbon disulfide
32:00leaves the cellulose unfortunately where
32:03it leaves the cellulose too is the work
32:06room where the workers are working it
32:08just goes up into the
32:12air nagta in the Indian state of Madia
32:16Pradesh is home to the baa group's first
32:20factory built in
32:221956 it's a city within a city with a
32:25Workforce of 5,000 thousand toiling away
32:28here day and
32:32night journalists are not
32:39welcome PA Blanc has assimilated the
32:42health problems associated with CS2 in a
32:45book they include eye disease
32:48infertility and vascular
32:50problems when I did my work on this book
32:54I visited the areas in Wales where these
32:57large factories had been I started to
32:59get emails from
33:01people and they would say you
33:04know my father died at the age of 42
33:08from a heart attack he worked in the
33:09factory and doing that we never got a
33:11penny
33:15in Ashok pval began working at Baer in
33:191981 in June 2019 he suffered a heart
33:23attack which he says was caused by his
33:26job
33:29yes yes I consider the company
33:31responsible the heart attack I had was
33:34because of my work there I filtered the
33:39Visos were you given any
33:43training no I was made to work without
33:46training they told me to just go ahead
33:50we filtered the CS2 by hand with
33:53cloth the company never gave me any
33:56warning no official ever said anything
33:59they told me that doing this job was
34:07safe at the age of 58 Ashok pval is on
34:11indefinite sick leave without
34:17pay abishek kazia is one of the few
34:20residents of nagda to take action
34:22against the pollution linked to the
34:24factory a law student filed a complaint
34:28against the
34:30company actually they are not allowing
34:33the people to come inside the company
34:35they are just always hide the all thing
34:38in front of the all people nobody can
34:40take action against them because they
34:43have too much long
34:45hand the students complaint alerted the
34:48regional authorities in January 2020 the
34:52pollution control agency inspected the
34:55bill a factory
34:57the factory was ordered to change its
35:00practices most importantly officials
35:02demanded a study of the effects of
35:04pollution on the health of workers
35:06looking in particular at Carbon
35:08disulfide
35:17CS2 north of nagda along the chambal
35:20river there are 20,000 people living in
35:22around 20
35:25villages
35:28among them is palmeri located 4 km from
35:32the
35:35plant for years the villagers have been
35:37reporting health
35:39[Music]
35:46problems the residents complaints were
35:49finally taken seriously by the
35:53authorities today a team of doctors has
35:55arrived to examine
35:59residence among the patients is this
36:02father who came with his two disabled
36:05[Music]
36:11Sons these children were born healthy
36:14they used to be able to walk and go to
36:16school this one walked to school until
36:18the sixth grade so his muscles were
36:21functioning normally but little by
36:24little they degenerated and now he's in
36:27a
36:31[Music]
36:43wheelchair there are no official
36:46statistics but many villages show
36:48similar symptoms paralysis articulation
36:52problems and even loss of
36:55speech
36:57in this single family there are three
36:59people are suffering from physical
37:01disability this girl has been uh 26 year
37:05old and they both brothers are 23 or 24
37:08years actually they are just physical
37:11disabled and the growth of the body is
37:13is
37:15STP and you just see the hair of that
37:17girl she is only 26 year
37:22[Music]
37:25old
37:28the government doctors counted 209
37:31individuals with health complaints
37:33linked to
37:36pollution for locals there's one main
37:39suspect baa they accuse it of having
37:42dumped its waste into the river for
37:53decades the village of palak has no
37:56running water people here drink water
37:59from Wells fed by the
38:05river in 2018 Baer began Distributing
38:08drinking water to villages in the
38:14area it finances six daily deliveries
38:18providing 90 L of water for each
38:25family the companies are availing the
38:28drinking water why would the company
38:30give free water to the inhabitants
38:33because they know that they are
38:34responsible for the pollution otherwise
38:36why they are just providing the water to
38:38the uh not this Village they providing
38:4122 Village and they know that they are
38:43responsible for the pollution and they
38:45only provide the water for drinking
38:47purpose not other
38:49[Music]
38:52uses to water their fields the farmers
38:55in palic still use polluted water from
38:58the
38:59river in January 2020 the authorities
39:02ordered biller to improve the water
39:04quality Downstream from the
39:07plant but biller denies all
39:10responsibility insisting that any
39:12pollution is unrelated to visco's
39:20production meanwhile Global demand for
39:23Visos is soaring the factory in nagda
39:26has plans to expand capacity and its
39:33[Music]
39:38facilities the fashion industry wants us
39:41to believe it has increasingly
39:42sustainable credentials but in reality
39:46the opposite is the case the lifespan of
39:49a fast fashioned garment is short and
39:51not only because in some cases things
39:53are only worn once and then discarded
39:58this garment has not been worn very
40:00often but you can already see signs of
40:03pilling around the
40:04hips with this dress the fibers have
40:07quickly become worn out so it no longer
40:10looks
40:14new when it comes to these fast fashion
40:17items you couldn't sell them in a
40:19secondhand store
40:25either
40:29under 1% of our clothing can be recycled
40:33every year 4 million tons of textiles
40:36end up in the trash here in
40:42Europe can we stop this fast fashion
40:47craziness there are small Brands
40:49supporting slow fashion clothes of a
40:52higher fairer and more sustainable
40:55quality
40:59efforts that soon reach their limits
41:01because slow fashion seems to have a
41:03limited
41:04appeal Studies by the French fashion
41:07institute revealed that stores with less
41:10new items simply see a lower Financial
41:15[Music]
41:19turnover if I had a dollar for every
41:21time somebody asked me tell me what I
41:23should
41:24buy I say no nothing
41:28nothing you have way too much stuff
41:31already but now what do we do what do we
41:34say stop spending money this is not a
41:37viable economic solution not shopping is
41:39not a solution to the industry so fast
41:43fashion will continue to be popular and
41:46it will continue to show strides towards
41:49improving towards circularity so we
41:52might see minor improvements in product
41:55development but we will not see the end
41:57of fast
41:59[Music]
42:07[Music]
42:17[Music]
42:25fashion

About this transcript

This page contains the full transcript of fast fashion the shady world of cheap clothing dw documentary by 范志铭, generated from the public captions YouTube serves with the video. The transcript has 4,516 words across 793 segments, with the original timestamps preserved so you can click any line to jump to that moment in the embedded player.

What you can do with it

Use the transcript to take notes, quote the speaker, build a study guide, generate a summary with ChatGPT or Claude via the YouTube Summary tool, or export it as a timed subtitle file with YouTube to SRT. You can also re-open it in the transcriber to choose a caption track available on the video.

Free YouTube transcript tool

YouTube2Text is a free YouTube transcript generator — no signup, no daily limit. Paste any YouTube link and get the full transcript instantly, with timestamps, click-to-jump, caption language selection, AI prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, and exports to TXT, SRT, VTT, or Markdown.