Research Notes : Ethical Fashion - The View From Argentina
The following passage "Ethical Fashion - The view From Argentina" is written by Regina A Root . This article was written for the journal named Fashion Theory -The journal of Dress , Body and Culture here she talks about various views on fashion and cloth production in Argentina .
Regina starts her talk saying about how Fast Rising Fashion in the early twenty first century
increased the variety of collections produced and consumed dramatically which gave a rise on thinking how these garments were made . She also talks about how present design practices reflect the ethical approach to fashion designing . Moreover she also says Ethical Fashion is a global context which demonstrates the relation to 1970s counterculture which was inspired by the natural looks and trends of paradoxes .
Then in the next part she talks about MICA (mercado de industrias culturales argentina)and how it demonstrates the ethical fashion . It says that the recent meeting at governments MICA demonstrates that the ethical fashion narratives should be understood within the recent 30 years of democracy . We get to know that this emerging trend recovers the ideas of recycling things to demonstrate argentinas fragmented past . Regina also talks about the Dirty War which took place between 1976 and 1983 . During this time the officials named the oppositions as 'subversives' and they were tortured , kidnapped and murdered approximately 30,000 innocent people who dint knew their origin and were called as the disappeared . Then she talks about the Escrache - it is an act of public shaming similar to a protest that makes visible kidnapping child and labours are forced to associate with the fast fashion brands in fashion industry . She gives special importance to Graffiti and its use of weapons of revenge to mark those people responsible for atrocities in the past . Then we come through a new organization named Alamenda Foundation which takes initiative in legal processes and to bring criminal charges to sweatshop operators and brands and provide them a source of employment so that they can regain their livelihood . Regina also gives an example of a ' escrache ' which took place outside the Zara store in Buenos Aires due to operating slave labour sweatshops .
At the end Regina states that all these protests have begun their transformation into social justice movement throughout the spanish speaking world .
QUESTIONS :
What else can be done to demonstrate the past of the country , as in Argentina its recycled clothes demonstrate their past ?
