04/24/2019
👋 🌎☝️ ITS TIME FOR A FASHION REVOLUTION- 🙅♀️NEVER FORGET. NEVER AGAIN. No one should die for fashion, but 6 years ago on April 24, 2013, the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed. 1,138 garment workers died and another 2,500 were injured, making it the fourth largest industrial disaster in history. There were five garment factories in Rana Plaza all manufacturing clothing for big global brands. The victims were mostly young women. Earlier that morning, workers were threatened with loss of their monthly pay if they did not proceed into Rana Plaza to work. Despite the cracks being identified the day before and their requests to not return to the factory floors, without a form of union representation they had no collective strength to stand up for themselves. There were 29 brands identified in the rubble. It would take years for some of them to pay compensation. For some families, providing DNA evidence to claim compensation would never be possible. To this day a high percentage of survivors are unemployed and suffer from severe trauma.
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The time to act is NOW. This is a huge part of why I, as a designer, focus on sustainability in the fashion industry. We as consumers and creators need to demand transparency and sustainability to change the dynamics of this flawed industry.
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