The term Fair Fashion
describes all garments that are ethically manufactured under fair
working conditions. Fair Fashion labels also aim to achieve a fashion
industry that focuses on equality and social justice through fair
salaries and a secure workplace.
The movement combats the nowadays very popular
Fast Fashion which offers extremely
cheap clothing whose production often goes hand in hand with a lack of
labour rights.
Fighting against poor working conditions
Rana Plaza
The year 2013 saw with the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory building (Bangladesh) that killed over 1,000 workers one of the most blatant examples of human rights abuses in the fashion industry.
Our Responsibility
Earth
When manufacturing or even consuming fashion, it is very important to know the responsibility that one bears. The responsibility for the people who produce your clothes (child labour still exists in the fashion industry!!) and also for future generations who will no longer have a planet worth living on if we continue to consume so much.
Recommendations
- Documentary: The True Cost (2015)
- Book: Fashion Conscious by Sara Klymkiw and Kim Hankinson
- Projects and Information: Fair Wear Foundation
- A beginners guide: good on you