AFR fashion editor Lauren Sams on faster, faster, faster fashion

This week on News Club, we talk with Lauren Sams, fashion editor at
the Australian Financial Review, about the rise of ultra-fast
fashion and how businesses like Temu and Shein manage to offer such
cheap clothes. In Australia alone, they are on track to record more
than $2 billion in sales this year and they’re fast grabbing a huge
chunk of market share both here and overseas. But there are plenty
of questions about the ethics of what we’re buying from these
sites. Club Picks: Two videos from the Wall Street Journal - ‘How
Temu’s Explosive Growth Is Disrupting American E-Commerce’ and ‘How
Shein Built a $66B Fast-Fashion Empire’ - are less than 10 mins
each and very informative.  A 2022 investigation by Wired,
‘Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: Inside Shein’s Sudden Rise,’
explores the problems facing the company.  This Money Talks
podcast episode by The Economist called ‘Why Amazon should be
afraid of Temu’.  Lauren Sams recommended this book -
Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes.
And here is The Devil Wears Prada clip Kate mentions from The Devil
Wears Prada Host: Kate Watson Producer: Annelise Taylor