Subkutan: Who makes our clothes?

Spring, summer, autumn and winter - in the past, fashion labels
launched new collections only four times a year. In the last
twenty years this changed radically: every month, stores offer
new clothes. Fast fashion is the term used to describe this. Fast
fashion allows us, the consumers, to get a new look or the next
trendy garment at an affordable price. The fast fashion industry
is built on cheap labour and cheap materials - often at the cost
of human lives.



This week is the tenth anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory
disaster in Bangladesh, an event that shocked and reshaped the
fashion world. Ursina Haselbacher, coordinator of the Bern
section of Fashion Revolution, an international movement founded
10 years ago in response to the tragic Rana Plaza factory
collapse. Together with Aviv Szabs, they talk about how what we
wear affects those who make it, and what we can do to influence
fast fashion politically and individually.