For decades now the fast fashion industry has been responsible for unthinkable human and environmental atrocities.
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For decades now the fast fashion industry has been responsible for unthinkable human and environmental atrocities.
When we talk about fashion crimes we usually refer to someone dressing in a way that does not conform to our own aesthetics.
Unfortunately the true crimes of fashion are far more sinister and are perpetuated by multi-million dollar global fashion brands - crimes that continue to go unpunished.
Fashion brands need to be held to account, to take responsibility for the safety and welfare of all the workers in their supply chain, and minimise the environmental impact that their industry has on the planet.
These are the true fashion crimes.
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Garment workers were denied billions in wages owed to them by big fashion brands.
Workers in a factory in Leicester were being paid far below the minimum wage.
1,134 people were killed when a building housing garment factories in Bangladesh collapsed. A further 2,600 were injured with many sustaining life changing injuries.
The exclusive British fashion brand, Burberry burnt its unsold inventory
A fire in a multi-storey garment factory in Bangladesh kills over 123 people.
Over 289 people killed in a fire in a garment factory in Pakistan.
Human Rights investigators Public Eye delve into the murky business practices of ultra fast fashion giant Shein.
Sri’s Lanka’s worst Covid-19 outbreak originated from a Brandix garment factory which makes clothes for Gap, Victoria’s Secret, and Marks & Spencer.