A collection poses with the rest of the textile fabric that has been piece in its shelter in North Jakarta area.
The cut of the fabric becomes a reflection of the climate of the capitalis behavior in the industry “fast fashion” and human consumptive culture so that it causes over-consuming rubbish.
Fast fashion is less translated as cheap fashion with short edar time with abundant models that follow the latest trends.
Workers posing with the remaining textile waste materials in Jakarta.
One bocah sees clothes sold in one of the shopping centers in the capital city.
According to the Overdressed book writer:Â The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, Elizabeth Cline, the price future and the rapid production of the latest fashion model makes shifting the value for clothing to number the sign value as a form of social identity.
Therefore, when users get bored, they do not feel unfortunately discard the content of the cabinet (though it has not long used it) to be filled with the latest collection issued by fashion fast retailer.
Maternity from zerowaste.id website, fast fashion is a term used by textile industry that has a variety of fashion models that are welcome to change in very short time, as well as using bad quality raw materials, so it is not durable.
Model shows fashion in Fashion Rock 2020 event in MRT, Jakarta.
Warga chooses a dress that is discussed in the shopping center in Jakarta.
The fast fashion manufacturer can produce up to 42 fashion models within 1 year, so that it can result in the advantages of production that are enduring on the combustion of clothing stocks not sold, as done by H&M retailers in 2017 (about 19 tons or equivalent of 50,000 jeans) and Burberry stock in 2018 (value 38 million US dollars).
Thomas Funds in his book “Fashionopolis†said some fashion fast brands may not design his product to last a long time, because more than 60 percent of the fabric fibers made today are made of synthetic materials instead of yarn so it will be cheaper to produce a new dress than recycling his thread from the used shirt. And when the clothes ends at the end of the disposal (TPA), then the clothes will suit decompose.
Meanwhile, the report of Ellen McArthur Foundation said the textile industry today still uses the intestinal way that is with a linear economic model (do-use). That way produces waste and pollution from the world’s fashion business (expected to achieve US$500 billion value per year).
One of the "fast fashion" products for sale in one of the shopping centers in Jakarta.
Warga chooses clothes in the shopping mall in the capital city.
It can be a serious threat to the environment. For that society is expected to change its consumptive properties in frothy while the government should redesign the model of the textile economy industry, based on the principles of eco-friendly broncular economy.
Photo & Text : Muhammad Adimaja
Author : Fanny Octavianus
The work of lifting textile piles in Jakarta.
The work of finishing the seams of jeans in a convection industry in Jakarta.
The work enters the waste of the cloth into the truck in Jakarta.
The work of sorting waste of fabric in the place of textile waste collector, Jakarta.
Manekin is laid near the textile waste pile in Jakarta.
