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Obsolescence of clothes: a fashion trend?

Authors: Noémie PICHON, Romain BENKIRANE, Sébastien THOMASSEY

Publication date: July 10, 2022

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Clothing textiles have been around for thousands of years. Initially a cottage industry, it gradually became structured and evolved into today's economic model. As the sector progressed, it benefited from the opening of its first factories in the early 1800s, until it reached mass production, bringing clothing within everyone's reach. As the means of production evolved, the industrialization of the sector accelerated, and the variety of products increased to better meet consumer needs. At the same time, fashion was driven by constant change and the quest for novelty, leading to the concepts of obsolescence and obsolescence on its own scale. The phenomenon of fast fashion has anchored the fashion sector in this contemporary economic model based on growth and favoring material possession, the desire for novelty and change as criteria of well-being.

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