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Let's be friendsP&P activists strut their stuff outside Topshop's big show
People & Planet activists stage guerilla fashion show at Topshop's big London Fashion Week event
P&P demo outside Topshop fashion show
Students demanding ethical fashion
Students love transparency
Whilst Topshop were putting on their trendy London Fashion Week ‘Topshop Unique’ event, P&P students held their own Transparent Fashion Show outside, to highlight the lack of transparency in Topshop’s supply chain.
As the first Redress Fashion event of this academic year, the message to Topshop was that unless they make substantial improvements to trading practises the campaign will go on.
Student Stacey Long, a member of the Redress Fashion Working Group said “The Arcadia Group, which owns Topshop must join the Ethical Traders Initiative (ETI), as a first concrete step towards living wages and decent working conditions in their supply chain.
Only then will their claims that they have improved be believable. Introducing a few Fairtrade clothing lines is not enough, and ends up looking like whitewash unless they join every other leading highstreet brand and join the ETI.”
Model Amani Ashraf said:
“I put on my pink wig and together we strutted to the Topshop entrance.
“Look at me I am in my underwear glad to attract your attention, but worse things are happening in the world. In developing countries everyday workers are receiving unfair wages, poor working conditions and inhumane treatment’.
The voices of these sweatshop’s workers are never heard. I stood at this border between Topshop’s injustice and workers rights.”
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