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Fast fashion is defined as cheap, trendy clothing that samples ideas from fashion celebrity culture that is created and sold at breakneck speed to meet consumer demand.
"The rate of disposal is not keeping up with the availability of places to put everything that we're getting rid of and that's the problem."
https://www.npr.org/2016/04/08/473513620/what-happens-when-fashion-becomes-fast-disposable-and-cheap

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Fast fashion contributes to:

Textile pollution & waste

The cycle of a "disposable" consumer mentality

Low wages

Unsafe workplaces & labor

CO2 emissions from transporting items

Water usage to produce the product

Microplastics from the fibers end up in lakes/oceans

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Affordable prices and instant gratification for consumers, more profits for companies, and the democratization of stylish clothing are among fast fashion's benefits.

Cotton production uses 6% of the world’s pesticides and 16% of insecticides.

Every year, fast fashion requires 93 billion cubic meters of water, which is enough to meet the consumption needs of five million people.

It is responsible for around 20% of industrial water pollution as a result of textile treatment and dyeing.

Clothes release half a million tonnes of microfibers into the ocean every year, equivalent to more than 50 billion plastic bottles.

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Trade clothes with friends & family

Buy at second-hand stores

Upcycle your old, tattered clothes

Practice conscious shopping

Learn to sew/alter clothes

Buy less (or nothing at all) when you don't need more

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https://www.npr.org/2016/04/08/473513620/what-happens-when-fashion-becomes-fast-disposable-and-cheap

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fast-fashion.asp

https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/fashion-clothing/what-fast-fashion-why-it-problem