This year the FASHION REVOLUTION WEEK (April 19-25, 2021) will take place for the 8th time. The community and all interested people meet again to take part in a lot of inspiring and informative actions to question the unjust actions in the fashion industry, to work out, and to achieve preliminary solutions. There are lectures, exhibitions, discussions, workshops, and clothes-swapping parties online and in some countries also offline again. Different designers open their studios and give insights into their work. The central question of the fashion revolution 2021 remains #whomademyclothes, this year the focus is on the connections between human rights and the rights of nature.
We are on the way
For ragwear as a brand, the fashion industry’s practices are well known. Of course, since we have been around for 24 years now. We have seen a lot and are aware of our responsibility. We are constantly working to optimize the working conditions at our production facilities. We are striving for long-term cooperation with them, in which everyone is being heard. We respond to problems and solution ideas of our partners and have already received positive effects. Occupational safety for the employees on site was improved and unpaid and excessive overtime was eliminated. There is now an in-house day-care center so that the seamstresses can reconcile family and work. To give you a little access behind the scenes of our ragwear production, we would like to introduce you to a few of the seamstresses who sew, and manufacture your favorite items so diligently and with a lot of know-how.
Our thanks go out to all employees who ensure that our ragwear creations see the light of day always in the best quality.
Good to know
The Fashion Revolution Week is an international week of action, on the occasion of the devastating building collapse in Bangladesh, which shocked the media and the fashion world on April 24, 2013. More than 1100 people lost their lives, another 2500 were injured. Among the victims were mostly young women who sewed clothes for western fashion brands in the ailing Rana Plaza building. Every year the community of the Fashion Revolution movement remembers the victims of this tragedy and fights for more transparency, humanity, and environmental compatibility in the fashion industry.
A lot of information and creative tips and tricks are available on the online platform www.fashionrevolution.org to help consumers become active themselves. In many countries, there are Fashion Revolution groups that manage and coordinate awareness-raising work and events.
