Fast fashions are constructed so that they typically last no more than 10 wearings.
Zara releases 20,000 new designs a year.
43 percent of suppliers in a Better Buying report reported experiencing “high pressure” negotiating strategies from buyers about lowering their prices.
China is quickly becoming one of the world’s top apparel importers. From 2010 to 2016, China’s apparel imports enjoyed an annual 17 percent growth, much higher than most other countries.
The European Union, the United States, and Japan remained the top three importers of apparel in 2016.
In 2011, the output of the textile and apparel industry accounted for 6.4% of China's GDP.
From June 2018-June 2019 China produced 51.95 Billion meters of textiles.
China’s shares in the world textile exports dropped from 37.4 percent in 2015 to 37.2 percent in 2016.
China remains the leading garment exporter with $158B, Bangladesh is second with $29.3B.
Measured in value, China, European Union, and India remained the top three exporters of textiles in 2016.
Global per-capita textile production has increased from 5.9 kg to 13 kg per year over the period 1975–2018.
The global fashion industry is pumping out 150 billion pieces a year or twenty pieces of new clothing for every single person on the planet, every year.
In 2019, 114 billion units of clothing were sold globally.
The number of items produced within the fashion industry doubled between the year 2000 and 2015 to over 100 billion units annually.
More than 80 billion new garments are produced a year.
Bangladesh currently has 425 spinning mills, 796 textile weaving mills, 240 dyeing and finishing mills, and around a total 6,502 registered and 527 un-registered garment and textile factories.
