Fashion Revolution Ireland
Fashion Revolution Week comes to Cork!
Wear We Wander is delighted to be supporting Fashion Revolution Ireland.
Fashion Revolution is a global movement now on the ground in Ireland kicking off with a week long series of events across the country.
Fashion Revolution organisers are on a mission to celebrate fashion as a positive influence. Fashion Revolution events will take place in Dublin, Galway, Cork and Sligo between April 24th to April 30th. Locally, events will take place from April 25th to April 27th with Fashion Revolutionaries across Cork will be hosting events including film screenings, pop up shops, clothing swaps, fix and repair workshops and more to inspire action to solve the problems the fashion industry is causing. Ethical fashion label Wear We Wander, has joined forces with CIT Fashion Society and NU., to host 2 days of events in CIT and a screening of The True Cost in the Friary on Thursday 27th. Full details of events can be found on wearwewander.com or on the event page https://www.facebook.com/
Fashion Revolution Week’s arrival in Ireland coincides with the anniversary of the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh which killed 1,138 people and injured of 2000 more, on 24th April 2013. In Bangladesh garment workers earn just €49.56 per month (source) which is less than is calculated as the basic living wage. With almost 80{e5c38ecb8d2d547bd120f432f48b6973fa9db73852aa4d3d6c4e9aa09ef1a122} of the workforce in this industry being young women and living in poverty it’s time for change.
To raise awareness and start the conversation organisers around the country are calling on fashion lovers to join fellow organizations across the world in asking leading fashion brands #whomademyclothes across social media.
Irelands campaign coordinator, Rosie O’Reilly of Re-Dress says; “We are one of over 90 countries involved in the Fashion Revolution movement this year. We will be calling on people across the country to take part in the campaign for better fashion. The global fashion industry is worth well over two trillion dollars, an industry of such value should not be able to profit at the cost of people and planet, its time for change and time to ask “who made our clothes”?”
Full event details can be found https://www.facebook.com/
For further info please contact: Bronwyn Connolly – wearwewander@gmail.com – 0894389844
Fashion Revolution Ireland Event Guide
