fast fashion- good or bad?

I have learned from this article that the reason Uniqlo, Zara, and H and M are so successful is because they are able to know what their costumers want and will like before they even make the product. They are also successful because they sell some of their products at marked down prices. H and M has 20-30 offices that are close to their stores which really helps them. I also learned from this article that it was hard to figure out the top supply chain innovations because they didn't have clear origins or it was a combined innovation. It was interesting to see that Toyota and Ford were on the top 10 list because they are very popular and well known for their success and quality cars. The fedex tracking system was also on the list and that is interesting because fedex doesn't seem like that big of an innovation but for it to add a tracking system was huge. After hearing about how successful fast fashion was I looked up why it was bad and found this article. It said that fashion is wearing out the world with cotton and pesticides. Because fast fashion requires fast laborers it is said that there is slavery for fast fashion and often times they can't even keep up with the work pace. It also said that they have bad working conditions. So while fast fashion is good for the customers it is not good for the people and economy fast fashion is coming from. Many of the fabrics and dyes used are even toxic.. that's awful for the people working! They need to find a more fair and safe way to export all of their products. It is hard to decide whether fast fashion is good or bad. I can't imagine the fashion industry without it but it is not good because of what it is doing to the workers and the economy.