The high cost of cheap fashion
Labor activists threw a spotlight on the plight of Bangladesh’s garment workers at New York Fashion Week last Thursday in the most literal way possible: by beaming the faces of Rana Plaza’s victims onto the exterior of Lincoln Center.
The installation, conceived by Bangladeshi photojournalist Ismail Ferdous and filmmaker Nathan Fitch, in collaboration with 99 Pickets and The Illuminator, highlighted the fashion industry’s dark side ahead of the one-year anniversary of the disaster, which killed more than 1,133 people and injured thousands more on April 24 2013.
Despite the ensuing interval, only a third of the companies that used factories in the facility have offered to compensate the survivors and the families of the deceased.
Protestors also marched upon The Children’s Place, one of several retailers, along with Walmart, JCPenney, and Mango, that have failed to compensate victims of the disaster.
via Ecouterre
