Marwa Chaanbi
PhD
Supervisor: Prof Parik Goswami and Dr Andrew Hewitt
Fashion Sustainability and Ethics; The Unethical Practices in The Fashion Industries, Focused on Exploitative Labour in The Fashion Supply Chains.
Fashion industry has globalized into an international market in which fashion designers, clothing manufacturers, fashion merchandisers and retailers come together from all the corners of the world to create new styles and trends of clothes, shoes and accessories aimed to attract consumers of different ages and races, but “there is no beauty in the finest clothes if it makes hunger and unhappiness” says Mahtam Ghandi and here is a different angle for the ugly side of fashion that impact environmentalism and social responsibilities. The goal is to create a system which can support indefinitely in both concerned term environmentalism and social responsibilities. To dominate the high street fashion business, mass production, consumer demand the unethical practices is increasing each year. The research is based on collects, investigate then evaluate the operated problematic with the fashion industries from exploitative labour, environmental damages, the use of chemicals waste and animal cruelty. The focus is on exploitative labour in the fashion production lifecycle, labour of fashion industry is facing different crisis and most of the companies are not fulfilling the ethical practices along with a carless government, an investigation of this practices and alternative models. Various objective defined, to inspect the consequences of the exploitation of labour. To analysis the policies transparency & traceability, auditing & supplier relationships, work empowerment along with assessing the legal and political aspects within the fashion supply chains. To determine previous principle and metrics along with innovating new ones along with implementation to agree upon in order to condense and moderate the unethical practices and maintain a productive fashion supply chains within the ethical trading initiative(ETI) for worker’s right and for a prospect sustainable fashion business.