After Fashion Revolution week, a video from “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” has brought the topic of ethical fashion to a more massive audience and we believe this is only the first step in the process of inspiring curiosity in the general consumer about where her clothes are made. These are only 3 videos that provide a snapshot of what we have called fast fashion.

John Oliver brings the fast fashion problem to a broader audience in the show’s signature humorous and satirical tone. Watch the show host slash companies like Walmart, H&M and Gap, while questioning their multiple debacles and examples of human rights carelessness.

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0:04 Fashion personality you can buy it’s what makes
0:07 some people look fun and fabulous somewhat like most men in their twenties
0:11 where
0:11 variations in a plaid button-up shirt every single day
0:14 I said undecided on not even gonna try I’m just gonna wear bush’s up they sent
0:19 a long text at six
0:20 the we saw it a lot of calls
0:23 in this country in 2013 Americans purchased on average
0:27 64 items per person I was able to do that because clothing is incredibly
0:32 cheap these days
0:33 as you know if you ever turn on your TV in the morning
0:36 the price in this dress shocked a lot of people in our office 39
0:41 99 okay calls
0:44 look LC by Lauren Conrad thirty-five dollars kept telling him sick
0:48 this is addressed by Norma Kamali it is twenty four dollars
0:51 at get out text out seriously
0:55 decked out secure together outta here there’s not like that russia twenty four
0:59 dollars gold
1:00 cue he wants to make
1:03 I’ll look for the consumer
1:06 low price is a fantastic nowadays those clothes even look good because trendy
1:11 clothing
1:12 is cheaper than ever and cheap clothing is trendy than ever and this is largely
1:15 thanks
1:16 to the rise in SoCal fast-fashion retailers the produce
1:19 stylish incredibly low cost clothing like H&M sarra
1:23 and forever 21 at the brand enables midwest and tweens to dress like
1:27 forty-something alcoholics attending the funeral over Tel Aviv nightclub
1:31 I to it’s a powerful law and
1:34 a big hot all these brands and pale
1:37 is that there’s always something new to Bali just look at H&M’s
1:40 right tunnel stores are replenished daily
1:44 from the streets to the runway the latest trends are scours and can go from
1:49 sketch to the rack
1:50 in as little as three weeks we have new garments coming into the store so
1:55 almost every day so to go to an H&M store today and come back two days later
1:58 you were always
2:00 find something new yes shot one day maybe you’ll find a shot in the chest
2:04 rising shwag up maybe next are you fine shot with
2:08 pardon my swag and to make the next day after that you find cocaine dusted copy
2:13 of Nylon magazine in a fitting room
2:14 something new at H&M all wage polish
2:18 I guess prices are so competitive
2:22 that a few years back they put on a dress that cost just four dollars and
2:26 ninety five cents
2:27 think about that that means you could take a five dollar bill
2:30 scotch tape in Tokyo genitals any be wearing a more expensive piece appalled
2:36 I want on-line and I Joe of crickets food
2:39 costs five dollars a bunch of weird orange cues you feed to above
2:44 all of 5 cents more then thanks dress that dress is only seven cents more
2:50 than a DVD up the ghost of Girlfriends Past inexpensive DVD
2:55 rights for it. I yes
2:58 somehow fast fashion companies on massively profitable
3:02 the Chairman Mike gin n is the twenty eighth richest person
3:06 in the world and the compound Zara is the fourth richest person in the world
3:11 that means people who own oilfields a lot less
3:14 the guy who makes distressed jean shorts are you close
3:19 is cheaper and easier than ever not just fast fashion companies traditional
3:23 retailers
3:24 have lowered their prices as well which means the only by brands make money
3:28 its volume and that’s why even basics like jeans
3:32 now go through fashion cycles the life span my flights
3:35 obviously the track too skinny jeans so for spring
3:38 forget about the skinny jeans now it’s all about the flair
3:42 ging are the baking for spraying joan is wearing that
3:46 gene
3:46 season and that is the baggy jeans she’s marrying these two trends and a bento
3:51controversial the cooler an addendum
3:53we got a denim call a lot
3:5610 a.m. cool lots
3:59finally an answer to the question whatever eighteenth-century cabin boy
4:02was also Canadian
4:05the as quite as all these stylish
4:09cheap clothes all at a certain point it’s hard not to look at those prices
4:12and want to
4:13how does any clothing company make money
4:16well let’s be honest you know the answer to that
4:19hapifork loading used to be made in the United rates as recently as 1990 it is
4:24remarkable and today
4:252 percent to pursue percent the clothes we wear made here that’s right
4:29we produce clothes almost entirely overseas where it’s much cheaper
4:32ninety-eight percent your products could be made abroad
4:35should really stop changing 19 to reflect that fact so
4:39American Eagle should really become Bangladeshi swamp a
4:43and went on a republic should really become
4:46actually that one is finite in
4:49got ahead of themselves their home once and
4:53unlock I know you think you’ve heard this story before
4:57because you’re if you remember the nineteen ninety sweatshops
5:00where a key point outright companies like gap Nike will protested
5:05and then of course most famously there was this kathy lee gifford said she was
5:09shocked to learn that a clothing line
5:11bearing her name was manufactured at least in part
5:14in sweatshops and by underage workers yes kathy lee’s clothing line was caught
5:20using child labor which was surprising given how kindly she’d always treated
5:24the small
5:24elderly boy who cohost a shell in
5:28the outcry over sweatshops wasn’t just loud it got some results kathy lee even
5:33testified in front of Congress
5:35we are now morally compelled to ask each other what can we do to protect labor
5:40rights in factories around the world
5:42and right here in America and given that it was my own neglect the compelled us
5:47to ask this important moral question I say to you all
5:49you are welcome now let’s start day drinking cum all
5:53what’s wrong with you people its after 9i in
5:58K good morning
6:01but amazingly I know this is hard to hear
6:05kathy lee did not solve everything in parts
6:09there’s been a patent troubling behavior in the government industry for the past
6:1220 years
6:13just look at Gap the nation’s number one supplier
6:16a polo shirts for frank talk to vomit on back in the 90’s
6:21they were criticized for labor abuses in the factory making a closed
6:24in El Salvador in response they agreed to start and independent monitoring
6:28program
6:29which only pretty good to everyone besides the hata fun
6:32outweigh idiots in ill-fitting cokie swing danced so
6:36but we kinda forgot all about it until
6:39five years later when the BBC visit the factory making got pumping in cambodia
6:44we’ve been told there were some children here making clothes for the gap
6:48this is certainty to she’s twelve-years-old
6:53she told the factory she’s 18 this is Chan seater
6:57she’s 14 she too light to get the job
7:01monitors never questioned even with them all come on time is no excuse
7:05if a child going to entry to a bar using a pink berry punch card a fight I D
7:11is the fucking boss faults all I says Hagel a middle name is one free topping
7:16call middle 9 have fun in that in response gap provoked approval about
7:21factory and in hong staff age verification requirements which sounded
7:25pretty good
7:25besides it was the year 2010 they had that
7:28ad campaign where pastel more on did the mambo
7:32South we kinda forgot all about it again until seven years after that
7:37when a British newspaper this is the workshop India
7:41according to a published report these children aged 10 to 13
7:45working as virtual slaves stitching embroidered shirts for GapKids
7:50okay stop having children might close the gap
7:54is bad enough having a my clothes for GapKids
7:57is somehow worse I like a beautiful shot that’s exactly also always
8:02will ship it around the world will be worn once and for all know why no mike
8:05is thousands more for me
8:06in response capsid it didn’t know
8:09its close win that workshop and demanded it supply Mike significant improvements
8:14with oversight to subcontractors
8:15and everyone felt better especially because it was 2007 I’m Kappa just had
8:21that mind-blowingly Cole
8:23holiday in your hood campaign with common balances rockin seen these
8:29industries
8:30he called cheap
8:33up the
8:36I know we’re talking about child labor but that maybe the status that I felt so
8:40far
8:41then in 2010 a fire broke out at a factory in Bangladesh the produced gap
8:47clothing killing 29 workers
8:49after that got launched a building and fire safety plan which was great
8:53because it meant nothing alarming consigning gaps presence in Bangladesh
8:57was ever going to happen again until 2013
9:01when Al Jazeera found this is no fire extinguisher
9:05no fire exit it’s just a shock in someone’s backyard
9:08howled
9:12how long have you been working here
9:16said
9:19said
9:22nom de klerk Journal says
9:26Old Navy
9:28Old Navy is owned by gap Inc yet
9:32I guess at this point to sing sweatshops all one of those nineties problems we
9:36got rid of like Donnie Wahlberg
9:38that more what one of those nineties problems were still very much dealing
9:41with like Mark holbrooke
9:43now CapSense those Old Navy jeans
9:47or rejected products sold without their knowledge never ended up in next door to
9:51look
9:51all brands in the industry have problems gap is by no means the worst and if you
9:56lost gap
9:57as we did they’ll point out that my real improvement and tried
10:00as hard as they can to fix all beings but think about that
10:04that means the company trying as hard as it can
10:07as being not infrequently connected to labor violations in multiple countries
10:11over two decades when you why all this topic seems
10:15the only situation in which captured coming to be
10:18on ambiguously helpful to people is when someone shakes their pants directly
10:23outside wanna bass stalls
10:24all I never thought I’d say this but thank God gap is here to help
10:29you people are angels I one of the biggest problems
10:34withholding many brands accountable is that deniability
10:38seems to have been stitched into the supply chain look at Walmart
10:411360 they hold their suppliers too high safety standards
10:45but CBS visited the factory in Bangladesh making clothes for wal-mart
10:49and found otherwise the boss at Mondi apparels
10:52muddle hoc child re showed an evacuation map
10:56marking the location 13 fire extinguishers
11:00but nearly love them were missing
11:03well if they’re not there
11:06then that’s not a map it’s an aspirational post up the fireside the
11:12put factory
11:14does not conform to Walmart safety standards how was that close their
11:19the managers told us the factory hasn’t been approved by Walmart for production
11:23but they still had an order for a million Walmart boxer shorts
11:27subcontracted to them by another factory I say so wal-mart sentence when approved
11:33factory
11:34and that factory sent it to an unapproved factory without wal-mart’s
11:38knowledge it’s just a crazy
11:40one in a million random accident that’s only happened multiple times over the
11:45past few years
11:46Walmart say their clothing suppliers in Bangladesh
11:49we’re doing business with the factory without their knowledge wanna bet
11:52suppliers
11:53subcontracted part in the order to test green without their permission
11:58the order was placed with the troubled factory without its knowledge
12:01it had no idea production ever happened there and this is not the first time
12:05walmart has been caught unaware
12:07no it’s not I’m and they are losing the right to act surprised
12:11what the characters in the hangover movies X it’s not
12:14accident the third time boys it up at reckless behavior which has to be
12:19addressed
12:20wanna hear the
12:23for the waters have all the fun stuff I’m not since the 90’s we’ve
12:28sporadically cared about things
12:30including two years ago this week after the wrong applause a building collapse
12:34five days after that deadly building collapse in Bangladesh rescuers continue
12:39to pour survivors from the rubble
12:40new pictures overnight showed dramatic rescue some using their bare hands to
12:45free those who are still trapped
12:46police 360 people have been killed hundreds more
12:50still missing that building collapse ended up killing more than eleven
12:55hundred people
12:56everyone was justifiably horrified and that report aired on The Today Show
13:00so you know that everyone had heard it we then found out the brands like Joe
13:04Fresh
13:04and the Children’s Place have been made in Ron applause and we were horrified
13:08again
13:09and yet we get so blinded by low prices the just a few months later
13:13the Today Show was doing pics is adorable sequin bag is from the talent
13:18under ten dollars wow on that now you don’t want to spend a ton of money cuz
13:21you’re gonna spill something on
13:23I found this one which is a steal poly blend fragile fresh
13:27touch it still yeah I now if we hadn’t felt boxed wine
13:31no I don’t think box get out get out
13:34get the hotel to the studio I think about what you’re doing
13:38because one of the ladies killing over that nineteen dollar Joe Fresh blouse
13:42is kathy lee different I think she can forget the human cost a shockingly cheap
13:47clothing
13:47than that is not in that case actually that surprising
13:51a brain is basically pickle dish on tonight at this point
13:54but doesn’t give you much hope for everyone else look
13:57this is going to keep happening as long as we let it
14:01so we need to show clothing brands not just the weekend
14:04but why the issue so we have a little surprise for the leaders of some of
14:08these companies on talking specifically about the heads up
14:10H&M of Walmart of gap on Jul fresh
14:14and at the Children’s Place also bought all a few lunch
14:18which will be turning up to you office tomorrow now full disclosure
14:21I do not know exactly how this food was might
14:25I told someone whom I have told someone else to get the most food
14:29they called for the cheapest price I might get that now I i do have strict
14:33policies in place of told them
14:35not to spit on that food or to rob their balls on that
14:38and I’m a trusted them to abide by that so want you to look at me suspiciously
14:42cheap food
14:43the lands on your desk tomorrow I want you to fuck King
14:46eat it and if you are thinking what a cock the bat I don’t know where it came
14:50from
14:50what if someone rub their balls on it don’t don’t know
14:54what to tell you other than now do you understand the importance of supply
14:58chain management
14:59but more like telling you about your lunch when I can show you
15:03introducing the spring collection all your lunch tomorrow first
15:07plays welcome I I is wearing an all-night be shot in shorts
15:13by his total outfits high-cost just 2378
15:17and he’s carrying the frighteningly cheap sushi platter
15:20the will be arriving at your office tomorrow thank you died
15:23%uh Hall the top waldholtz
15:27hot cross trainers model involves a summer maxi dress available for
15:31under fifteen dollars and to try our fault is that we got
15:34for just a dollar seventy five-page which is so close to being free
15:39it’s literally nauseated model on sale
15:43judge judge judge judge joe prior she Oscar
15:47is carrying a sweatshirt and casual pants
15:51the cost under forty dollars how is it so cheap
15:54xms3 much like the contents all that gigantic pile
15:58up chief dumplings that you will be eating tomorrow thank you Austin
16:02let’s move on for I trend collection
16:06repair tightly sub 20 dolla jeans and blouse with
16:10shrimp and salmon patties 3-for-5 which will be genuinely arriving at your stock
16:15all offices tomorrow
16:17I’m guessing that your sweats before it gets into the room I’m finally thank you
16:23thank you finally please welcome the Children’s Place
16:27and psychologically it’s
16:29she’s wearing an adorable white summer dress which cost less than fifteen
16:33dollars
16:34and that what’s that she’s pulling that would bring your lunch
16:37a selection all just cheap rotisserie chickens
16:41just to reiterate I have no idea where they came from or what might have
16:45happened to them along the way
16:46but Elliott show wants you to eat them is not right elliott’s
16:50the I play the
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A simple whiteboard take on the fast fashion business model and its implications for the industry, the environment and consumers.

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A reflection on women’s fashion consumption habits and the real problems behind the ability to have more and pay less.

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