FASHION REVOLUTION DAY
24 APRIL 2014
It’s not common to ask yourself, “Who made my clothes?” But
it should be. We need to be more curious about how our clothes are made and who
made them. Fashion is about relationships. Fashion Revolution Day is about
reestablishing those broken relationships and the connections we’ve lost with
the clothes that we wear. The first ever FRD will be about transparency, asking
you to ask yourself this very question.
Fashion Revolution (www.fashionrevolution.org) brought
last year’s Rana Plaza disaster to the world’s attention:
"On April 24th last year,
1133 people were killed when the Rana Plaza factory complex collapsed in Dhaka,
Bangladesh. Many more were injured. Today, people are still suffering as a
direct result of our fashion supply chain. Fashion Revolution Day says enough
is enough.
On this first anniversary of the Rana
Plaza disaster, we’ll start by remembering its victims and raising awareness of
the fashion industry's biggest challenges. But because we want fashion to be a
force for good, we’ll also be celebrating fashion and spreading excitement
about the power it has to make big change happen fast."
Fashion Revolution asks everyone who is part of FRD to show
their support for better connections and transparency across the fashion supply
chain by wearing an item of clothing inside out, photographing it and then
sharing it with the hashtag #insideout. So tweet it, link it, like it, share it. Spread the word. Let's turn fashion into a force for good.
