An extractive fashion economy produces garments designed to fail, driving chronic overproduction, accelerating waste, and polluting land, water, and air. Value is siphoned upward to global brands and shareholders while wages are suppressed, labor is exploited, and local fashion ecosystems are hollowed out. Overconsumption is normalized as clothing is stripped of care, repair, and relationship, flattened into anonymous transactions. The result is social erosion at the local level and waste colonialism at the global level, where excess clothing is exported rather than responsibly managed.