Download We Are What We Wear: Unravelling Fast Fashion and the Collapse of Rana Plaza AudioBook Free
Fashion is a lot of things. It is self-expression, big business, trend-setting, a lifestyle choice. But nevertheless, you see fashion, it relies on one simple characteristic: the outstanding acceleration with which clothes make their trip from the drawing board to the TRADITIONAL hanger. Fashion is fast. Fast fashion affects the types of garments we have inside our wardrobes. It also describes the intricate, multi-national supply chain that links the clothing on your back to the crowded, creaking factories in the world's slums where clothes are made by a workforce numbering in the tens of large numbers. The manufacturing pressures which come from our profound love of extremely cheap, extremely current styles were taken to global attention in 2013 when the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital city, collapsed in a cascade of tumbling rubble, twisted metal and trapped body. Over 1,100 people passed away, mainly young women. We Are EVERYTHING WE Wear is the storyline of what happened in Bangladesh and exactly how fast fashion is continuing to grow to be the giant that it is today. The romantic accounts from the survivors of the collapse are mixed with an exploration of the annals of fast fashion and of the way the TRADITIONAL both fuels and satisfies our every fashion wish. Award-winning reporter Jason Burke picks his way through the day of the collapse, while fashion and consumer expert Lucy Siegle looks at what has happened since - and what must happen next.
