Lawsuit Apparel, a Manchester based clothing brand, has created a one-off jumpsuit featuring 500 “worker SOS labels” to draw attention to exploitative labour practices in the fast fashion industry. The labels appear to be cries for help from the women in Bangladesh who’ve made the garments and feature statements such as, “Forced to Work Exhausting Hours” and “Degrading Sweatshop Conditions”.
Whilst the fashion industry turns over nearly $3 Trillion a year, garment workers, 80% of them women, are still working for poverty pay and are subjected to long hours, forced overtime, unsafe working conditions, sexual, physical and verbal abuse and short term contracts.
Lawsuit have created the bespoke piece of “workwear couture” to help and support female factory workers and draw attention to sweatshop working conditions in Bangladesh and beyond. It will be auctioned to raise money for organisations campaigning to improve the lives of overseas garment workers.
Lawsuit creative director, Keith Gray, commented: “The problem with the original protests was that nobody knew exactly who’d created these labels, that were intended to give a voice to women making clothes in appalling conditions. So instead of focussing on the real issue, the debate became focussed on who’d made the labels, instead of the issues they were drawing attention to. But this time there can be no doubt who created these labels of protest, it was Lawsuit. The jumpsuit is intended as a piece of art, which aims to provoke questions about the treatment of workers in the fast fashion industry, rather than who made the labels.”
Lawsuit Apparel has created a one-off jumpsuit featuring 500 “worker SOS labels” to draw attention to exploitative labour practices in the fast fashion industry. The labels appear to be cries for help from the women in Bangladesh who’ve made the garments and feature statements such as, “Forced to Work Exhausting Hours” and “Degrading Sweatshop Conditions”.
Whilst the fashion industry turns over nearly $3 Trillion a year, garment workers, 80% of them women, are still working for poverty pay and are subjected to long hours, forced overtime, unsafe working conditions, sexual, physical and verbal abuse and short term contracts.
In response, Lawsuit Apparel has created a bespoke piece of “workwear couture”, in the hope of helping and supporting female factory workers and drawing attention to sweatshop working conditions in Bangladesh and beyond. Made in Manchester, the one-off jumpsuit features 500 “worker SOS labels”, stitched into the front-mid panels and will be auctioned to raise money for organisations campaigning to improve the lives of overseas garment workers.
Lawsuit creative director, Keith Gray, commented: “The problem with the original protests was that nobody knew exactly who’d created these labels, that were intended to give a voice to women making clothes in appalling conditions. So instead of focussing on the real issue, the debate became focussed on who’d made the labels, instead of the issues they were drawing attention to. But this time there can be no doubt who created these labels of protest, it was Lawsuit. The jumpsuit is intended as a piece of art, which aims to provoke questions about the treatment of workers in the fast fashion industry, rather than who made the labels.”
Manchester based clothing brand Lawsuit Apparel has created a unique one-off jumpsuit, featuring 500 “worker SOS labels”, to raise awareness of exploitative labour practices in the fast fashion industry. The labels appear to be cries for help from the women in Bangladesh who’ve made the garments and feature statements such as, “Forced to Work Exhausting Hours” and “Degrading Sweatshop Conditions”.
The fashion industry turns over nearly $3 Trillion a year, yet garment workers, 80% of them women, are still working for poverty pay and are exposed to long hours, forced overtime, unsafe working conditions, sexual, physical and verbal abuse and short term contracts.
In a bid to help and support female factory workers and draw attention to sweatshop working conditions in Bangladesh and beyond, Lawsuit Apparel has created a bespoke piece of “workwear couture”. Made in Manchester, the one-off jumpsuit features 500 “worker SOS labels”, stitched into the front-mid panels and will be auctioned to raise money for organisations campaigning to improve the lives of overseas garment workers.
Lawsuit creative director, Keith Gray, commented: “The problem with the original protests was that nobody knew exactly who’d created these labels, that were intended to give a voice to women making clothes in appalling conditions. So instead of focussing on the real issue
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