Forget fast fashion — go vintage
We all know the answer but choose to ignore it. That is until the recent highly publicised collapse of the Rana Plaza factory on the outskirts of Dhaka in Bangladesh on April 24, which killed a total of 1,127 by the time they finally called off the search and rescue. It is a tragedy that such events continually occur and each time we seem to come back to the same crossroads. The question is will things actually change this time?
Arguments have been going back and forth between newsprint, magazines, and cyberspace about the pros and cons of cheap labour. Are we conflicted in thinking that cheap labour is one that we should avoid when it provides struggling countries with a platform to rise up from the poverty that they are stuck in?
