fast fashion

Fast-fashion giant Shein faces backlash over Paris store opening and sales of childlike sex dolls
November 5, 2025
PARIS (AP) — Fast-fashion giant Shein is facing a fresh wave of controversy as it opens its first permanent store in Paris on Wednesday inside one of the city’s...
Shein faces record fine in France for misleading shoppers
July 4, 2025
Fast-fashion giant Shein has been fined €40m by France’s consumer watchdog for misleading pricing tactics, marking one of the largest penalties imposed under the country’s regulations targeting deceptive online...
A tariff loophole is closing. Why that matters for Shein, Temu and other Chinese online retailers
February 5, 2025
President Trump’s tariffs could reshape one of retail’s most booming sectors: fast fashion. Hefty taxes on imports from the U.S.’ biggest trading partners have been averted at least temporarily...
Mounds of Donated Clothes Are Clogging Beaches in Ghana
January 21, 2025
Ghana, located on the southern coast of West Africa, has more than 500 kilometers of coastline that arcs and juts into bays and points. Along this coast are a...
Kenya urges end to secondhand textile misinformation
January 2, 2025
According to the Mitumba Consortium Association of Kenya (MCAK) over 95% of imported secondhand clothes are not waste, yet operators face punitive taxes and regulations that threaten their decades...
Can anything slow fast fashion down? Lawmakers are giving it a go
September 12, 2024
Worldwide criticism of fast fashion’s waste, labor abuses and carbon emissions has done little to slow down the industry. But new legislation could alter the flood of goods —...