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London Fashion Week has made its glam entrance, and it's yet again time for swanning around with designer-handbags, getting worked up about anorexic size-zero models and, yes, discussing labour standards. Sweatshops and child-labour are not exactly new to the fashion agenda.
Recognising that these issues are still as important as ever, though, the big business/NGO alliance The Multi-Fibre Arrangement Forum has invited us all to participate in a public debate about the (lack of) compatibility between garment workers’ rights and cheap fashion.
If you have an opinion on this issue you want to get off your chest, why not join the likes of high street fashion retailers New Look and H&M, and the various organisations dealing with garment workers’ rights, including Accountability International, the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation and good old Oxfam International. It’s the perfect chance to give a piece of your mind.
The debate will focus on Bangladesh, where around 20 million people's livelihoods are threatened by competition from sweatshops in China and India willing to make our £3 jeans to a price that still secures UK retailers a good profit.
The 'Positive buying: confronting the challenge between buying practices and workers' rights’ event is taking place in London on 19 September 2007. Full details here.
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