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Fast fashion directly and indirectly harms all people through its mistreatment of workers, promotion of a culture of consumption, and destructive environmental impact. This installation concept focuses heavily on the social influences of the fashion industry as seen in the working conditions for garment workers; young women and children are forced to work in dangerous conditions for extremely long hours with little compensation. Additionally, there are themes of the environmental impact of the industry through its greenhouse gas emissions, solid waste pollution, and wastewater. The basic form of the concept is made up of an abstract representation of a person that represents the garment workers. At the feet of the worker rests a pile of clothes; a result of the fast fashion fashion industry. The pile of clothing creeps up the legs of the worker, becoming increasingly distressed. The distress on the legs forms an appearance of the person rotting and wounded which alludes to the slow destruction of living beings in the environment at the hands of the fashion industry’s impact on global warming. The arms of the worker are dragged down by ropelike threads and fabrics to show the weight and entrapment of the industry upon its abused workers. Through this struggle, the pose of the worker remains in action, showing the active fight of worker unions against this horrible industry. The concept title, I Don’t Want to Die for Fashion, encapsulates the unnecessary workers’ lives lost and the environmental destruction that is ignored in order to produce fast fashion.