module 1 - fashion evolution

Second half of my zine

• m going to be looking into the contemporary context into fast fashion and negtivley comparing it to the first half of the zine by showing how little we have actually grown in terms of cheap labour and how its only really gotten worse with clothing companies such as Primark and Asda making clothes so extremely cheap people are calling it the “throwaway fashion” era. I am going to look at the rippling effect fast fashion has on not only the planets health and well-being but also how fast fashion has so negatively impacted the rise of garment sweatshops especially in places such as Bangladesh and china.
• I am going to talk about a historical event which happened only a couple of years ago which seems very shocking that we haven’t learned from the triangle shirtwaist factory factory fire of 1911; this is the Bangladesh garment factory collapse of 2013 which killed 1,134. We obviously haven’t learnt our lesson. The building in which the collapse took place contained clothing factories, apartments , several shops and a bank. The bank and the shops were immediately closed after cracks were discovered in the building however garment workers were ordered to return and the building collapsed the following day. There is a most interesting argument on who to blame for this incident. Some people argued that it was the decision of the managers to send the workers back to the factory after the cracks were spotted however some argued that partial responsibility needs to be given to he short production deadlines given by buyers due to such quick change of designs aka 'fast fashion'. Many have argued that the demand for low-cost clothing meant minimal oversight was given by the clothing brands. One of the clothing brands was in-fact Primark.