Approximately 80 billion pieces of clothing are consumed every year, with almost 85% of that amount ending up in landfills annually. This impacts all the globe with elevated carbon emissions and poisonous waste dumped into our bodies of water. The communities residing within the affected areas bear the brunt of those adversarial results. Garment employees, moreover, are subjected to horrible working circumstances, and sometimes work under the poverty line.
With the rise of shoppers’ consciousness and worker protests, many corporations flip to greenwashing to advertise themselves as sustainable, whereas persevering with their exploitative practices. But activists and NGOs refuse to accept pretence: they need to structurally problem the fast-fashion business. They foyer for stricter laws, business transparency, and suggest alternate options that permit us to reimagine how we eat the garments on our backs.
The area for moral designers appears to be ever-shrinking, however many stay hopeful. We ask our visitor audio system concerning the prospects of constructing a sustainable style business the place artistic cooperation and magnificence can nonetheless thrive.
Gertrude Klaffenböck acquired her diploma in Agricultural Economics from the College of Pure Sources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna, and later a Grasp’s of Science in Ecotoxicology & Environmental Administration on the FH Technikum Vienna. After an extended profession in each Südwind and FIAN Austria, she now works as a coordinator for the Clean Clothes Campaign, which goals to enhance labour rights within the world clothes business.
Laura Ștefănuț is a Bucharest-based investigative journalist, and a 2019 Milena Jesenská fellow on the Institute for Human Science, Vienna. She can be the founding father of haine CURATE, which supplies authorized help to garment employees in Romania and informs them about their rights. Her stories concerning the Jap European garment business have appeared in retailers like Reuters, Balkan Perception, and Arte TV, and she or he is at present engaged on a guide about EU garment employees.
Meha Jhajharia is a Kolkata-Vienna-based multimedia visible artist at present doing their Grasp’s in biomathematics on the College of Vienna. They analysis strategies of utilizing local weather change trajectories to trace developments in political actions with the assistance of mathematical modeling. Meha can be the co-founder and organizer of Spice Mixers, a Vienna-based collective devoted to curating dance flooring for QTBIPOC diaspora.
We meet with them at The Alte Schmiede Kunstverein, Vienna.
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Associated reads
Made in the EU:Why workers are fleeing Romania’s garment industry by Laura Stefanut, Eurozine.
Sources
Fast Fashion Getting Faster: A Look at the Unethical Labor Practices Sustaining A Growing Industry by Emma Ross, GW ILPB.
Violent wage protests in Bangladesh could hit top fashion brands by Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN.
Fashion greenwash: how companies are hiding the true environmental costs of fast fashion by Helle Abelvik-Lawson, Greenpeace.
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