Fast fashion is a contemporary term used by fashion retailers to express that designs move from catwalk quickly to capture current fashion trends. Fast fashion clothing collections are based on the most recent fashion trends presented at Fashion Week in both the spring and the autumn of every year.
 Emphasis is on optimizing certain aspects of the supply chain for these trends to be designed and manufactured quickly and inexpensively to allow the mainstream consumer to buy current clothing styles at a lower price.
 This philosophy of quick manufacturing at an affordable price is used in large retailers such as H&M, Zara, Peacocks, Primark, Xcel Brands, and Topshop.
 It particularly came to the fore during the vogue for "boho chic" in the mid-2000s.
Today, more fashion capitals exist than the original “Big Four” of London, Paris, Milan, and New York from the 20th century.
 Although the “Big Four” remain the most elite, other cities have developed into smaller fashion centers.
 The history of Fashion in Barcelona begins in the early 20th century with the rise of the textile industry and spans through today with its current concentration on fast fashion.
 With various popular fashion districts and a handful of notable fashion events each year, Barcelona has proved itself as a major city for fashion.
 According to the Global Language Monitor, which ranks world fashion capitals, Barcelona ranks as #5.
Supré is an Australian fast fashion women's wear chain owned by the Cotton On Group.
 Known for fashion items and basics at an affordable price point, the Supré product offering is aimed at the youth market.
 With over 133 stores in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa also have stores.
 Supré General Manager Elle Roseby is the former CEO of Australian retailer Sportsgirl.
Pep&Co is a British discount fashion retail chain, owned by the South African company Pepkor and based in Watford, United Kingdom.
Peacocks is a fashion retail chain based in Cardiff, Wales.
 The chain is a part of the group Edinburgh Woollen Mill, and employs over 6,000 people.
 There are currently over 400 Peacocks retail outlets located in the United Kingdom; and more than 200 stores located in twelve other countries throughout Europe.
 Originally selling home goods and basic clothing, Peacocks has been re branded over the years as a value fashion store.
Drapers, formerly Drapers Record, is a business-to-business magazine and website covering the fashion retail sector.
 It was founded on 6 August 1887 to cover the women's clothing retail trade, but today spans the whole fashion retail sector, including wider retail issues such as digital transformation, technological advances and the management of supply chains.
 The publication is owned by Metropolis.
Helga Liselott "Lottie" Tham (born 18 April 1949) is a Swedish heiress and businesswoman, owner of over 5% of the fashion retail chain H&M.
In the fashion industry, fast fit (often capitalised and written as Fast Fit) refers to a method of handling the shipping and sampling processes typical of multinational organisations who primarily manufacture offshore.
 The Fast Fit philosophy centres on the sharing of 360-degree, annotatable images intended to reduce the costs and lead times associated with shipping physical samples across continents.
 The term is particularly prevalent amongst (but not exclusive to) companies that fit the Fast Fashion model, as Fast Fit is considered to be a vital component in the reduction of time between design inspiration and finished garment or product.
French Shoes was a shoe chain headquartered in Montreal, Quebec.
 It began in 1956 and its last location closed in the 1990s.
 French Shoes featured very stylish women shoes at an affordable price and grew to 30 locations located mostly in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario.
 The founder of French Shoes was Seymour (Sonny) Lubin (1932–2009).
 In the early years, he was joined by Gerard Gingras and the two were an excellent team in the Canadian ladies shoe fashion industry.
 The company was sold in 1979 to Bata Shoes which made the purchase to enter a higher grade of shoe market.
 However, the acquisition was not successful and the brand was sold again a few years to later to Calderone Shoes, a large Toronto shoe company.
 Calderone Shoes eventually fell into hard times, and the French Shoes legend and name died.
 However, French Shoes was an exciting place to be in Montreal from the early 1960s to late 1970s and will always be remembered fondly.
Mates by Irvine Sellars was a British fashion retail chain founded by Irvine Sellar.

Question: The fast fashion philosophy of quick manufacturing at an affordable price is used by a fashion retail chain that employs over how many people?
Answer: 6,000