Lucy Siegle manages to write a book that is both confronting and enthralling. Unfortunately, 11 years later, the picture Siegle paints is not very different to today's fashion industry. 

Siegle takes us on a tour through the fast fashion industry, and the various systems that it is built on. She covers how fast fashion encourages us to buy endlessly and impulsively, with brands placing ever-increasing pressure on supply chains to make clothes faster and cheaper. She shows us the abhorrent conditions garment workers survive in, and the poorly monitored factories that spew out endless pollution. 

Siegle also discussed the environmental and ethical impacts of different fibres, from cashmere and merino wool to cotton and bamboo fibres. She especially discussed how the fashion industry’s tendency to focus on a single fibre at a time leads to over-exploitation of the ecosystem it comes from. 
This book was a disturbing but enlightening look into the fast fashion industry.