On april the twenty fourth two thousand and thirteen the rana plaza complex in bangladesh collapsed crushing to death one thousand one hundred thirty five garment workers and injuring two thousand more warnings the building was on the safe or ignored their customer orders to be met on time to satisfy our insatiable demand for fast fashion the horrific news and images shocked the world some people called it the closing industrys nine eleven. As the dark reality of a system out of control too many collections too much consumption too much pressure from shareholders designers burning out globalised fashion has become an all too many ways unsustainable. Because the clothes industry is a never ending loop its completely insane. Trends whats in whats out whats hot whats not none of that exists now. The only production in fashion at a moment is capital production. Theres no cultural production anymore to the system is absurd. The fashion industry produces eighty billion garments every year ma
a half billion pairs of jeans are sold in the world france alone disposes of a massive seven hundred thousand tons of clothes annually only one quarter will be sorted and cycled in centers like this one you shan t alou in the paris suburbs the best pieces are resound in france others are shipped to africa unsellable items are turned into insulation. inexhaustible source of fabric is and i use his hunting ground to this is where the hipster rag picker on earth the roll materials for her future collections. break because there s already more than enough material out there and it makes no sense to produce more. to day i found this fabulous wool in material i m going to make a little jacket with it. this cotton here will be perfect for swirly dress.