While there is room for nuanced points to be made here, I was operating under the impression that we don't say someone in a basement fabbing a t-shirt is workin

While there is room for nuanced points to be made here, I was operating under the impression that we don't say someone in a basement fabbing a t-shirt is working in the "fashion industry". What's left is the parasites that design expensive handbags and dresses made of plastic, being sustained by FOMO and preying on institutionalised insecurity. That's leaving aside the fact that the way it treats it's models is plainly reprehensible, because the same case can be made for the sweatshop workers that end up crafting the clothes themselves.