>>18473498 (OP)Fashion designers are given a limited budget and encouraged to use the cheapest fabric, material cuts, production methods, and outsource them to underpaid workers (generally third world countries). The companies themselves are filthy rich and invested into tech/AI. They use psychological studies to manipulate their advertising even subtly by adding certain "trends" before they're trends in unrelated (non-fashion) media. Think of a chef wearing beige crop tops on the cover of some food magazine that's just doing a verbal interview. It's perverse, it's everywhere. The more blatant thing they do is pay influencers or celebrities to wear it and use the algorithms to put it on everyone's feed. You become more exposed to it overtime that it feels "normal" and the lower IQ of the normies have already adapted it to fit in, eventually everyone else will follow suit. It really doesn't help that our education system is dumbed down, the lack of homogeny/immigration has lowered the collective IQ and "living within your own means" further because no one knows their own neighbor and takes care of each other (depression, economic uncertainty, and lack of subcultures) has lead to people clinging to fast fashion for a hint of dopamine.