Stitched Up: Slaves to fast fashion

19 November 2015 - 02:16 By Tamsin Blanchard, © The Daily Telegraph

There's been a wave of fashion documentaries over the last few years. One of these is called The True Cost , but it's far from a glamour fest. It does for the fast-fashion business what Food Inc did for the fast-food industry.In October 2013, shocked by the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh - which left 1134 garment workers dead, mainly women who made clothes for brands he knew and wore - Andrew Morgan launched a fund to finance a documentary that would travel the world to find the true cost of the fast-fashion industry on the world.The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May.Morgan grew up in Los Angeles, part of a generation that never stopped to think about how clothes came to be so plentiful and so cheap. He made the film as ''an invitation to say, 'here's something you might not have considered'."''My hope for the film is that we get to broaden this conversation and say, in the real world, 'let's take seriously this idea that when we buy something it is a moral act and there is a chain reaction of consequences'," he says. ..

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