Ethical Issues
-Fast Fashion
Fast fashion not only has extremely
harmful impacts on the environment
but also on the factory workers who
are poorly paid and have their health
and safety put at risk in bad working
conditions. An example of this is the
Rana Plaza disaster of April 24th 2013
where 1,135 people were killed when
the building collapsed. (Dhaka, 2016)
This is now known as the deadliest
disaster in the history of the garment
industry worldwide and it sparked
some vast changes in workplace
laws
and
consumer
behaviour.
(Whistles, 2014b)
One of the most heavily involved
brands in the Rana Plaza disaster is
the value market retailer Primark,
who was on the front page of every
major media outlet at the time. The
total compensation that Primark
had to pay out reached over $14m
(Butler, 2014). High end high street
brands such as All Saints should
acknowledge this situation and realise
that in order to avoid the negative
stigma that will follow Primark for
the foreseeable future they need
to change how they are perceived.
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