For our next project we first watched 'The True Cost' to get relevant information about the environmental and ethical issues affecting the fashion industry. This helped me gain insight into what is happening in the world.
ABOUT
''This is a story about clothing. It’s about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. The True Cost is a groundbreaking documentary film that pulls back the curtain on the untold story and asks us to consider, who really pays the price for our clothing?''
''Filmed in countries all over the world, from the brightest runways to the darkest slums, and featuring interviews with the world’s leading influencers including Stella McCartney, Livia Firth and Vandana Shiva, The True Cost is an unprecedented project that invites us on an eye opening journey around the world and into the lives of the many people and places behind our clothes.''
http://truecostmovie.com/about/
This was a very moving film that helped me get secondary research for my next project 'The big idea'. There are around 40 million garment workers, where 97% work abroad, where a lot of them are some of the lowest paid workers in the world. There is two sides to a story and some people say that they choose to work and that theres a lot worse they could be doing; however after many incidents such as the Rana Plaza Disaster- (which killed more than 1000 people), it really proves that the industry needs to change, especially as its such a popular industry to work in. 1/6 people in the world today work in the global fashion industry.
Aswell as human rights, environmental problems are also a massive impact on the world. Cotton produces the fibre that is responsible for most of the clothing worn by the world today, as its in so much demand the cotton plant is being reengineered to keep up with the industry. Textile waste is also causing a massive problem, its non bio degradable which means it just sits on land fields while releasing harmful gases into the air. With all these problems considered fashion today is the 2nd most polluting industry, just behind oil.
Many fashion designers are now trying to change this, such as Stella McCartney who is ''trying to do it in a way, less harmful to the planet''.
FACTS
Aswell as human rights, environmental problems are also a massive impact on the world. Cotton produces the fibre that is responsible for most of the clothing worn by the world today, as its in so much demand the cotton plant is being reengineered to keep up with the industry. Textile waste is also causing a massive problem, its non bio degradable which means it just sits on land fields while releasing harmful gases into the air. With all these problems considered fashion today is the 2nd most polluting industry, just behind oil.
Many fashion designers are now trying to change this, such as Stella McCartney who is ''trying to do it in a way, less harmful to the planet''.
FACTS
- 20% of the global industrial water pollution comes from the treatment and dying of textiles.
- 20,000 deaths per year as a result of pesticide poisoning.
- 350,000 tonnes of clothes go to the land fields each year, which take around 200 years to decompose.
- 2nd most polluting industry- deaths are cause from air pollution.
- 750 million people around the world lack water, however loads is used to produce clothing.
After all the research i found out, we now need to produce a 'Big Idea' to help raise awareness of the environmental and ethical issues connected with the fashion industry.
Thank you for reading
Charlotte
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