A surge in ultra-cheap clothing imports from China is overwhelming Finland’s recycling system, forcing tonnes of unused garments straight to incineration.

Kathmandu, Sept. 5 -- Fast fashion has been quietly reshaping how Nepalis shop and dress. From TikTok-driven trends to the flood of cheap imports from China, India, and Thailand. Just as this culture ...

Your new shirt looks good and it’s a bargain. You wear it a couple of times. You wash it a couple of times. The color starts to fade. The seams come apart. You throw it away. Fast fashion is cheap.

You don’t have to walk out of the store wondering how your total jumped that high. Groceries, school clothes, paper towels, ...

Swedish discount apparel retailer H&M is a major buyer of clothing from Bangladesh, where poor building infrastructure and deplorable working conditions killed more than 1,100 people when a building ...

Cheap, disposable fashion is damaging the planet. If consumers don’t seem to care, should investors? Clothing has never been less expensive. Globalization helped fashion chains like H&M, Primark and ...

With Jacki Lyden in for Tom Ashbrook. We’ll look at the real price of the ten dollar shirt. A clerk rearranges a display where sweaters were offered at $15 as part of many day-after-Christmas-only ...

The story of what’s happened to bargain clothing, and where the business is headed next, can be told by a sickly green pair of cargo shorts made in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A photo of them recently landed ...

Editor’s Note: Elizabeth Cline is a New-York based journalist and the author of “Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion.” When was the last time you looked at the label on your clothes ...