The fashion industry is a significant contributor to gender inequality in many forms, with nearly 1 in 3 female garment workers having experienced sexual harassment in the past 12 months. Most of these workers in low-skill and low paid work are young women. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation estimates that 300 million people work in the clothing industry, with around 25 to 60 million people directly employed. The number of people that work in the global clothing supply chain isn’t fully understood, due to the complex web of processes involved. Our clothes have gone on a long journey before they reach stores and webshops, passing through the hands of cotton farmers, spinners, weavers, dyers, sewers and many more. Have you ever wondered who made your clothes? How much they’re paid, and what their lives are like?
What are the conditions of the global fashion industry? We can’t stop until the culture of consumption is changed and we learn to love and appreciate our clothes and the people that made them. We can’t stop until every worker who makes our clothes is seen, heard and paid properly and the environments they live and work in are safe. Citizens are thinking before they buy.īut the story is far from over. Designers are now considering people and planet when creating new clothing. We’ve seen manufacturers make their factories safer and more of the people in the supply chain are being seen and heard. We’ve seen brands becoming more open about where their clothes are made and the impact their materials are having on the environment. Since Fashion Revolution began, people from all over the world have used their voice and their power to demand change from the fashion industry. We believe that no one should die for fashion and since the Rana Plaza disaster we’ve campaigned with citizens, brands and policymakers to demand a fair and safe fashion industry.
via rijans Flickr CC Fashion Revolution is now a global movement of people like you. Their unifying attribute wasn’t low price, but lack of transparency. And the culpable brands weren’t limited to ‘fast-fashion’, but included mid-price retailers. The truth is that we bought and wore these garments stitched together in tragedy. In the days and weeks before the tragedy, many of these clothes were packed in boxes and shipped to brands and retailers around the world. The factories remained open and these workers made our clothes in fear for their lives. The retails shops and banks on the ground floor shut down their operations, but the demand of global brands and an insatiable fashion industry called garment workers back inside. Multiple workers told their supervisors that they were afraid to enter the building and continue working. In the aftermath, survivors told stories of how they knew the building was hazardous and showing cracks in the days leading up to the collapse. Most of the 5,000 workers inside were young women. Rana Plaza was a factory complex in Savar, Bangladesh, making clothes for some of the biggest global fashion brands. More than 1,100 people died and another 2,500 were injured, making it the fourth largest industrial disaster in history.
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