Sale Season! The Status Quo Never Dies

Why we keep buying into it


We’ve entered the sale season and the entire industry–sustainability advocates included, has jumped into hard-discounting mode.

While it’s understandable that Covid impacted the market, leaving high inventories, it seems clear that the status quo wins.
The push to leave things as they are, sticking to the usual patterns of production and sales, is stronger than the will to change.

The interests of the industry players are intentionally focused on maintaining the status quo. And the game is well-known: massive overproduction that corresponds to an omnipresent, gigantic distribution.

In order to sustain this system, mark-ups have gotten higher and higher.

Even those who launched “Rewiring fashion” did it following an outdated pattern, simply postponing delivery dates or sale seasons. Is that the solution? Really?

Perhaps this means that nothing has to change. Covid was not a lesson to learn but just an obstacle along the path. Rather than learning the lesson and changing strategy, they would prefer to sell all the stocked goods to any alien species. And maybe exploit a whole galaxy too.

Producing goods for the sale season


Producing goods to be sold during the sale season is the blind strategy of a sick market system. A short-term solution that offloads all the costs onto workers–creating new slaves–and exploiting the planet.

If sustainability includes ethical work–giving a proper wage to those who make our clothes, then sales, as they are, are not sustainable.

Prices are often inflated from the start to account for expected sale seasons. No sales means more realistic prices throughout the season, and therefore, more affordable items.

We hope to see industry players in the fashion field coming together  to find new strategies to avoid sales. By connecting and collaborating, they can add value to products and establish a viable, long-term strategy.

Furthermore, if they all claim to support sustainability, they should also take action to make it a reality.

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