The documentary exposing the dark reality of fast fashion. The fast fashion industry has come under much scrutiny in recent years, with documentaries and journalistic exposés revealing the inhumane conditions suffered by factory workers worldwide at the hands of multi-million dollar clothing chains (not to mention the buyers turning a blind eye to the question of where their clothes come from). But while there’s certainly a greater awareness surrounding such issues, the fight for a more ethical approach to fashion is far from over – a point hammered home in Machines, a poignant new film from first-time director Rahul Jain. For his take on the subject, Jain ventures inside one vast textile mill in Gujarat, India, capturing its inner-workings in breathtakingly cinematic detail. For the first 13 minutes, there is no dialogue. Instead, sweeping camera work guides us dizzyingly around every nook and cranny of the labyrinthine space.
The first thing you notice are the towering, grey machines, guzzling up brightly coloured fabrics like giant robots. Machines, le documentaire qui vous emmène dans les coulisses de la "fast fashion" Dans son premier documentaire, Machines, Rahul Jain expose l'envers du décor des entreprises de "fast fashion". Aujourd'hui, les coulisses des plus grandes industries de "fast fashion" sont de plus en plus dévoilées dans des documentaires et des reportages. Des films qui révèlent les conditions inhumaines dans lesquelles les ouvriers sont contraints de travailler tous les jours.
Malgré une légère prise de conscience de la part des acheteurs, le combat pour une mode plus éthique ne fait que commencer. Après Andrew Morgan et son documentaire The True Cost, c'est au tour du réalisateur indien Rahul Jain d'aller à la rencontre de ces travailleurs avec Machines. Un premier film poignant qui vous montrera l'envers du décor d'un des plus grands secteurs de la mode. C'est dans une entreprise textile, dans la province de Gujarat, en Inde, que Rahul Jain filme, avec une technique remarquable, le quotidien des ouvriers. La mode, le textile et l'obsolescence programmée (infographie) [Infographie] Obsolescence programmée : Découvrez la Vie de nos T-Shirts Dans le cadre de notre dossier spécial « Obsolescence et Durabilité », nous nous attardons aujourd’hui sur un cas bien particulier : celui des t-shirts.
Après avoir étudié le coût économique et environnemental de l’obsolescence programmée, ainsi que l’obsolescence programmée des salariés et des compétences, zoom sur une nouvelle victime : les t-shirt et la mode. L’obsolescence programmée, mythe ou réalité ? En tout cas, si l’on en croit l’entreprise Loom et l’information relayée par Merci Alfred, les t-shirts sont la preuve que l’obsolescence programmée frappe aussi l’industrie de la mode. La mode se renouvelle de plus en plus vite, les entreprises cherchent à baisser leurs coûts et à agrandir leurs marges, et l’obsolescence programmée nous oblige à racheter constamment nos t-shirts.
Découvrez, au travers de l’infographie ci-dessous, la vie incroyable de nos vêtements… Li Edelkoort: «La mode n’a plus rien à dire» Gourou de la mode depuis plus de trente ans, la Néerlandaise Li Edelkoort s’est lancée dans un dévastateur Manifeste antifashion (1), dans lequel elle dit tout haut ce que beaucoup pensent tout bas. Cette grande spécialiste des tendances, qui a créé entre autres le magazine Bloom , annonce non pas la fin de la mode mais la mort d’un système dépassé. Engagée et argumentée, son analyse en démonte chaque rouage, de la formation des designers, en passant par la presse, le culte des divas, les défilés, la délocalisation et en pointe les faiblesses… Dirigée par les financiers, la mode est démodée, dit-elle. Le coupable ? L’argent, devenu le seul moteur d’un beau métier qui se vide de sa substance.
Pensez-vous vraiment que la mode soit morte ? La mode n’est pas morte, mais le système l’est. Comment votre milieu a-t-il réagi ? «Enfin quelqu’un a dit ce que nous pensons tous», voilà ce que j’entends. Vous accusez les écoles de mode d’être en partie responsables de cette situation. Que faire ? Bangladesh’s apparel factories still have appalling worker conditions. Taslima Akhter This article was reported in partnership with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute.
On the morning of Oct. 13, Taslima Aktar arrived at the gates of a Bangladeshi factory called Windy Apparels, in the industrial suburb of Ashulia, where she had been employed as a sewing operator for a year. For two weeks, the 23-year-old had complained of a fever and a hacking cough; her supervisor had refused her repeated requests for time off. Ten years in the garment industry had taught Taslima the costs of missing a day’s work without permission—especially before a big order had to be shipped out.
As a young woman from the countryside, this job, at a large garment factory, was her only ticket out of rural poverty. When she walked onto the factory floor that day, she already felt faint, but when she approached her line manager about going home early, he refused her again. Later that evening, her co-workers found her body stowed near the factory gates. Rehman Asad/Getty Images. L’industrie du fast-fashion est TOUT sauf écologique. On pouvait déjà dire merci aux fast-foods pour polluer à la fois nos organismes, l’atmosphère et les villes du monde entier, on peut désormais remercier également les champions du prêt-à-porter bon marché.
En plus d’être connue pour exploiter la main d’œuvre des pays pauvres, l’industrie de la « fast-fashion » est à l’origine d’un gâchis et d’une pollution titanesques. Une enquête effectuée par Newsweek est revenue sur le sujet, évoquant la « crise environnementale » historique que l’on doit notamment à ZARA, H&M et aux autres enseignes low-cost du genre. Connues pour leurs collections en permanent renouvellement, plusieurs fois par an, les marques de vêtements telles que Zara et H&M contribuent à la production d’une certaine obsolescence vestimentaire. Une « mode jetable » à l’origine d’une multiplication des déchets textiles Tout d’abord, vêtements et recyclage ne semble pas faire bon ménage. L’environnement, première victime d’une industrie ultra-polluante. Fast fashion: The sad cycle of compulsive shopping, guilt, and regret has now spread to Asia — Quartz.
Joseph Mifsud is an enigma. The Maltese academic has admitted to The Daily Telegraph (paywall) that he is the mysterious professor at the center of Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos’s attempts to arrange a meeting between Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin. But he insists he has a “clear conscience” and fervently denies Papdopolous’s claim that he knew the “Russians had obtained ‘dirt’ on then-candidate Clinton.” Mifsud has told the Washington Post (paywall) that he’d had “absolutely no contact with the Russian government,” and reiterated to the Daily Beast that, “I do not know anybody from the Russian government…I am an academic.” That’s not quite true. Mifsud has had contact with multiple Russian officials, as Mother Jones has reported. The idea that he could have tried to facilitate contacts with Russian officials is “not at all” far-fetched, says a former employee at the London Centre of International Law Practice (LCILP), where Mifsud held a senior role.
H&M’s “sustainability” report hides the unsustainable reality of fast fashion — Quartz. US president Donald Trump has trumpeted the huge drop in the number of undocumented crossers as one of his biggest accomplishments. So why, then, is the president’s fixation with illegal immigration seemingly growing? In recent weeks, he and his administration have honed in on the issue, linking it to the brutal, primarily El Salvadoran MS-13 gang. He’s also been tweeting a lot more about the border, immigrants, and his wall proposal. Since mid-April, Trump has posted 14 tweets on those topics, twice as many as in the previous two months. In April, Trump doubled down on his more incendiary rhetoric by revisiting a staple from his presidential campaign: the 1960s song “The Snake.” To language experts, it’s obvious why Trump continues to use “The Snake” and other inflammatory rhetoric targeting immigrants even as fewer of them breach the border.
The Protestor Trump is most often in “The Protestor” mode when he tweets about immigration. Textbook propaganda Does this approach work? How to Save Water Through Your Fashion Choices - Ecocult. This super informative post was originally published by Good On You app. Ever thought about how much water it took to make your cotton t-shirt? How about three years worth of drinking water for one t-shirt! That’s a lot of water; 2,700 litres to be exact. Pretty shocking right? In recognition of World Water Day, we want to reflect on the fact that not everyone around the world can just turn on a tap in their house to drink clean, fresh water, let alone flush a toilet with the push of a button.
Only 2.5% of the Earth’s water is freshwater and only 0.3% is accessible to humans. So while we may be a ‘blue planet’, usable water is incredibly scarce in comparison. The fashion industry is a massive consumer and polluter of our fresh water. Unsustainable cotton farming has resulted in the loss of the Aral Sea in central Asia. Manufacturing in the apparel industry also contributes to the water footprint of fashion. But there is something we can do Making clothes last It’s not too hard! 1. 2. 3. 4. Cambodge : les forçats du textile. The Women Who Make H&M's Clothes Are Fired For Getting Pregnant.
Mere days after the Sri Lankan factories producing Beyoncé's much hyped collaboration were accused of exploiting workers, another high street clothing giant is at the centre of a labor storm. Research from the Asia Floor Wage Alliance accuses Swedish retailer H&M of routinely exploiting workers across India and Cambodia. The report collates interviews with 251 workers in H&M supplier factories, and alleges numerous violations of international best practice in labor standards. The survey makes for uncomfortable reading, and paints a grim picture of life for the Asian and predominantly female workforce that stitches your cut-price clothing. If you are a garment worker in an H&M supplier factory in Cambodia and India, becoming pregnant may well cause you to lose your job.
Structural factors make it almost impossible for people to escape their low pay and insecure conditions. Read more: The Elite Clothing Brands Paying Sri Lankan Factory Workers Poverty Wages. We Have No Idea How Bad Fashion Actually Is for the Environment. My journey down the rabbit hole started with this fact: “The global fashion industry is the second most polluting industry in the world.” You’ll hear this repeated at panels, on blogs and news sites, and anywhere else sustainable fashion is being discussed. Intuitively, it sounds true. We’ll start with the fact that an estimated 50 million tons of polyester — a petroleum product — were produced in 2015. Growing cotton, especially if it involves pesticides, herbicides, and oil-powered machinery, is also a large carbon emitter (though not as large as polyester).
But when I searched for the source, I couldn’t find it. “The report it was associated with has been pulled by its authors and the Danish Fashion Institute has been trying to walk this back since it accidentally used it in a press release,” Jason Kibbey, CEO of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, told me in an email. Another fact floating around says that fashion accounts for 10 percent of global emissions.
Dr. Kibbey agrees. La mode, la mode, la mode…et le TRUE COST – LES INITIATIVES JOYEUSES. There Is A Major Climate Issue Hiding In Your Closet: Fast Fashion | Co.Exist | ideas + impact. This month as world leaders meet in Morocco to discuss implementation of the Paris climate agreement, which recently entered into force as most major economies began committing to some kind of carbon emissions reduction, there is little talk about one major contributor to climate change: fast fashion.
Fashion has been largely left out of the Paris climate talks. There’s lots of chatter about the more . . . fashionable low-hanging fruit: energy efficiency, conservationism, or the ramp up of renewables. But there’s little talk about textiles and what we’re wearing. And in light of U.S. election results and the prospects of the next American president’s rejection of the Paris agreement, it is critical, now more than ever before, to focus on something nonfederal, like fashion.
Fashion is like food, another sector largely ignored in the Paris climate talks, in that we are resistant to changing such personal behavior. Given the void here, it’s time to discuss exactly what is at stake. Can Fast Fashion Be Ethical? Reformation Is Rewriting The Rules. Capital & Main is an award-winning publication that reports from California on economic, political, and social issues.
President Trump’s nominee to lead the Labor Department, Andrew Puzder, admitted this week that he employed an undocumented housekeeper for years. But those revelations didn't derail the fast-food CEO's nomination—he is still strongly supported by the White House and his confirmation hearing could come as soon as next week. In that role, Puzder’s job will be to oversee America’s job market and to enforce rules on workplace safety and discrimination and employer-provided benefits.
Since 2000, Puzder has been the CEO of CKE Restaurants, where he employs 70,000 workers at Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s restaurants. Puzder commands the loyalty of some top managers but not the affection that many of his employees felt for Karcher. Interviews with management employees, most of whom have left CKE, reveal a company where even higher-level workers are dispensable. Primark : ce symbole tant aimé d’une mondialisation détestable.
Marque irlandaise de vêtements bien connue des fashionistas adeptes de tenues tendance et bon marché, Primark est devenu le symbole d’une fast-fashion qui accumule les excès. Avec un dixième magasin en France ouvert récemment à Évry, l’enseigne attire des clients séduits par ses très bas prix, mais aussi des médias qui ont tôt fait d’aller voir ce qui se cache derrière. Primark intrigue, et à raison : depuis quelques mois maintenant, des témoignages de plusieurs dizaines d’employés et anciens salariés ont émergé sur la toile, révélant une réalité peu glamour, bien éloignée de l’image branchée et décontracte de la marque… En France : différentes boutiques, même son de cloche À l’origine du low-cost. Des témoignages qui font froid dans le dos Depuis, la page recueille les nombreux témoignages d’employés et anciens employés qui ont à cœur de partager leur expérience, souvent traumatisante, de l’enseigne.
Des scandales qui témoignent d’une mondialisation déshumanisée.