Jahresrückblick 2010 Inspired by
Year in Review Sonja Wöhrer mold aka Mrs. Jonathan & Son I've through their archives and Kirsten Brodde (Green fashion blog) scroll and put together some interesting articles. Unfortunately, the negative messages predominate but life happens to be no walk and I also thought it can not hurt to once again bear in mind why it is important at all to pay attention to where and what has been so buys:
12/17/2010: The World
shirt. The fashion group H & M will not engage in exploitation. And yet he sells clothes for a few euros. How can that be? A search for the secret of the cheap T-shirts. By Wolfgang on Uchatius www.zeit.de
12/14/2010: Dozens killed after fire breaks
out at garment factory in Bangladesh. Dozens of people were killed after a devastating blaze raced through a garment factory that supplies major multinationals seeking as Gap and JCPenney near Bangladesh's capital. By Julhas Alam (Associated Press) More at www.star.com
information here 12/01/2010: "
researchers from Sweden recently bought 21 pairs of leather shoes known brands such as Timberland, Converse or Bata and checked them in the laboratory were all literally." Stinkstiefel "Regardless of price and origin they contained dangerous. substances, even Veja and El Naturalista, sailing under the Eco Flag. " Posted by www.kirstenbrodde.de
22/11/2010: Green Gold Green Fashion Fair in Munich;
wife Jona & Son ,
Kirsten Brodde and
Veggie Love report
08/11/2010:
Retail giants shamed by UK sweatshops . Clothing on sale in the high street [Bhs, New Look, Peacocks, C & A, Jane Norman] is being made in Britain in dirty, dangerous and "appalling" conditions, according to secret television footage Which will intensify pressure on a fashion industry hit by a series of sweatshop scandals. By Martin Hickman at www.independent.co.uk information in German can be found here
03/10/2010:
"Almost no one defends itself." The seamstresses of outdoor textiles from the brand The North Face "in El Salvador can not just live on their wages, said trade unionist Jeaneth Pineda. Hannes Koch on www.taz.de
03/10/2010:
report from Kirsten Brodde on Wear Fair in Linz - Austria's trade fair and ecological fashion
09/29/2010:
Ethical Fashion Show in Paris. A guest blog by Bernd Haussmann in www.kirstenbrodde.de
08/04/2010:
A video of the campaign. "10 cents existence of pay for all": "With the minimum wage that a worker in the garment factories in Asia or Latin America during a normal working day can earn, no family live a dignified life. We want the fashion industry get serious about making forward and paid the workers a living wage. " Against the following Company was called to protest: C & A, Calida, Esprit, Fjällräven, H & M, Helly Hansen, Inwear, Jack & Jones, Mango, Only, Orsay, Patagonia, Pimkie, Promod, Skiny, S. Oliver, Strellson, Tally Weijl, Tatonka, The North Face, Triumph, Vero Moda, Zara. (Quotation and information: www.zehnrappen.ch)
13/07/2010:
outdoor covered by the manufacturer with social responsibility. "The outdoor manufacturers advertise vigorously with the concepts of sustainability, fairness and social responsibility, but in fact are the jackets, shoes and backpacks - no different from large textile discounters -. Produced worldwide for starvation wages" Susan Amman on www.spiegel.de
13/07/2010:
A video of the www.berlinfashion.tv Green Fashion Fair thekey.to in Berlin. From Mrs. Jonathan & Son
09th and 10.07.2010:
impressions from Berlin by the green fashion label at the Premium and THEKEY.TO and the
Green Showroom Sonja Wöhrer mold.
A report to the fashion shows of Kirsten Brodde.
07.01.2010: A report
Kirsten Brodde the meeting of the eco-fashion scene ("Far beyond organic" - the future of natural fabrics) at the invitation of the International Association Natural Textile manufacturers to exchange ideas in the Berlin Kalkscheune.
06/04/2010:
Adidas violates its standards. How Sweatshop World Cup Adidas equipment? workers of a supplier in southern China say they made a lot more overtime than the group really wants to admit. On www.taz.de
16.04.2010:
pounds of chemicals in the T-shirt . Eco-fashion is on the rise. More and more textile chains and labels are jumping on the green train. The broad mass of clothes is chemically impregnated as before. By Christian on Willim www.tt.com
12.04.2010:
Ethical fashion hits big time with German takeover. One of the world's top trade fair organizers, Messe Frankfurt, Germany's, takes over the Paris-based "Ethical Fashion Show." www.independent.co.uk
08.04.2010: The Green
maker. Fashion has to be allocated a green coat: Even brands like C & A or H & M are now using to organic Collections - A plea for eco-fashion by Sonja Wöhrer mold alias Mrs. Jona &
son 07/04/2010:
discount clothing under fire . Kik-workers complain about catastrophic conditions. Kik relies on cheap - apparently also in workers in the Third World. Ace in the NDR-magazine "Panorama" in any case come after months of research to the conclusion that the textile chain does not adhere to its promise to improve the production conditions. Christian Teevs on www.spiegel.de
23.01.2010:
NewsWatch on www.shopfair.org : genetically modified cotton was sold as organic cotton / Biobaumwollskandal
21st to 23.01.2010: Green Fashion Fair
THEKEY.TO in Berlin: The Berlin
Ökohimmel. on the green fashion exhibition theKEY.to - and elsewhere. By Sonja Wöhrer mold.
thoughts Kirsten Brodde.
18.01.2010: What are social
green fashion brands? "South Wind Germany has some companies in the" green generation "of eco fashion, eco-fashion, green fashion, or produce as always, put under the microscope, and some experts made for some surprising discoveries." (Quote: http://fraujonason.blogspot.com)
11.01.2010:
news watch on www.shopfair.org : H&M and Walmart destroy unsold clothing / H&M und Walmart zerstören nicht verkaufte Kleidung
