take down British high street stalwarts such as Topshop and Miss Selfridge.It represents, for many, the worst of the fashion industry: with around 4,000 new products landing on its site each day, it sells huge volumes of £5 tops and £9 dresses, designed to appeal to the kind of person who doesn’t want to be seen twice (on social media or in real life) in the same outfit.
Clothes this cheap have a limited life-span – even if they are donated to charity – and ultimately contribute to the UK’s £140 million worth of clothes sent to landfill every year.Shein regularly comes under fire for its tone-deaf merchandise too.
Last year it was forced to remove a swastika necklace from its website (the brand said it was a Buddhist swastika, not a Nazi.
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