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Fire at “Ready Made Garments”-factory doused after 15 hours
After 15-hour of frantic effort, 13 units of fire service members doused the fire which broke out at Tropical Knitex factory in Chandra area under Kaliakoir upazila of the district early Saturday,…
How Nike Solved Its Sweatshop Problem
It wasn’t that long ago that Nike was being shamed in public for its labor practices to the point where it badly tarnished the company’s image and hurt sales. The recent factory…
Beyoncé clothing range is made by ‘sweat shop labourers on £4.30 a day’
Beyoncé’s new range of women’s sportswear is made using sweat shop labourers who earn as little as £4.30 a day, The Telegraph reports. The American pop star’s Ivy Park gym gear is…
Fashion has become the wearable equivalent of empty calories
I swear they’re breeding. That when I leave the house for work each day, they get it on together and make lots of little fashion babies behind my back. It is the…
A Fashion World turned inside out
Our founders Adam Morris Philp and Simon de Tusch-Lec state in their feature article published in the Danish newspaper Politiken that: “It is in our interest as consumers to examine the blind spot in…
‘Slave To Fashion’
A NEW ETHICAL CAMPAIGN: ‘Slave To Fashion’ ‘Slave To Fashion’ book and campaign aims to raise awareness of modern slavery in the fashion industry and show how it can be eradicated by…
Three years after Rana Plaza disaster, has anything changed?
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Three years after the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 factory workers, the rights and safety of workers are in greater focus, but…
Three Years After Rana Plaza, Has Anything Changed?
LONDON, United Kingdom — Sunday will mark the three-year anniversary of Rana Plaza, the worst disaster in the history of the garment industry, which killed 1,134 people when a building in Bangladesh…
Three Years after Rana Plaza
On the morning of April 24th, 2013, thousands of men, women, and children were at work inside Rana Plaza, a large complex in a district northwest of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The building, which…
Repost: 5 Truths the Fast Fashion Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
The fashion industry gets a lot of flack these days. The excess, the overtly sexual advertising, the humanitarian issues, the waste, the lawsuits, the list goes on. The industry giants have dedicated…