We Are What We Wear: Unravelling Fast Fashion and the Collapse of Rana Plaza
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (855 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00OKXBZNE |
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| Number of Pages | : | 420 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Excellent Introduction To the Global Dynamics, and Moral Ambiguity, of Fast Fashion An excellent introduction to the global dynamics, and moral ambiguity, of fast fashion (think Zara, H&M, Topshop, etc.). Set in the context of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh where over 1,100 garment workers died almost exactly one year before this book was published.The larger story is the huge economic pressure placed, primarily by the fast fashion segment of the . Cashing in on the suffering of others Mike Jones Lucy is so passionate about the struggles of garment workers. What happens when they no longer have a job? They can eat this book.
It also describes the complex, multi-national supply chain that links the shirt on your back to the crowded, creaking factories in the world's slums where clothes are made by a workforce numbering in the tens of millions. Fashion is many things. We Are What We Wear is the story of what happened in Bangladesh and how fast fashion has grown to become the giant that it is today. Fast fashion influences the types of garments we have in our wardrobes. But however you see fashion, it relies on one simple characteristic: the incredible speed with which clothes make their journey from the drawing board to the High Street hanger. The intimate accounts from the survivors of the collapse are mixed with an