Inside Out for Fashion Revolution Day

On the anniversary of the tragic collapse of Rana Plaza, StyleSociety joined the worldwide campaign urging you all to go inside out for Fashion Revolution. The epic Dhaka factory disaster gave rise to Fashion Revolution Day.

Curiosity Is Powerful. Questions Are Powerful.

A Week After Rana Plaza Collapsed, Many Fast Fashion Companies Were Still Not Able To Say With Certainty Whether Their Garments Were Made There.

Even The Companies Themselves Didn’t Know Who Made Their Clothes.

The theme for Fashion Revolution Day was transparency and reconnecting the relationships in the fashion value-chain, where consumers and fashion lovers had to show their support by asking the question “Who Made Your Clothes?” and did they do so responsibly?

To show our support, StyleSociety, joined the worldwide campaign, along with the help of the Cape Town twitter account. Urging all fashion enthusiasts, StyleSociety readers and followers to wear their clothes inside out on Fashion Revolution Day, 24 April 2014 and use their voice to ask brands the question, “Who Made Your Clothes?”.

MANIFESTO FOR A FASHION REVOLUTION

We are Fashion Revolution. We are designers, producers, makers, workers and consumers. We are academics, writers, business leaders, brands, retailers, trade unions and policymakers. We are the industry and the public. We are world citizens. We are a movement and a community. We are you. We love fashion. But we don’t want our clothes to exploit people or destroy our planet. We demand radical, revolutionary change.
This is our dream…

INSIDEOUT FOR FASHION REVOLUTION

INSIDE OUT FOR FASHION REVOLUTION
“Who made my clothes?” – Kumari Govender

I wore my Drashta Sarvaiya tulip tailored coat #InsideOut and asked the question, “Who made my clothes?”.

To show our support, StyleSociety, joined the worldwide campaign, along with the help of the Cape Town twitter account. Urging all fashion enthusiasts, StyleSociety readers and followers to wear their clothes inside out on Fashion Revolution Day, 24 April 2014 and use their voice to ask brands the question, “Who Made Your Clothes?”.

Knowledge, information, honesty. These three things have the power to transform the industry. And it starts with a simple question: Who made my clothes?

Lack of transparency costs lives

You too can become a conscious consumer by looking at your clothing labels and asking brands “Who made my clothes?”. As we educate ourselves, our attitudes towards the ethics and manufacturing of clothing will slowly change, and our questions will change the industry in time.

For more information visit Fashion Revolution and visit Fashion Revolution South Africa on Facebook

Creative Commons Licence: Fashion Revolution, source: fashionrevolution.org, by © Keiron O’Connor

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