Why Versace is putting workers' health before style

Enseigne Versace sur Rodeo Drive, à Beverly Hills en Californie © HECTOR MATA / AFP


Délaver un jeans tue par la campagne pour des vêtements propres

31/07/2011 4:33 pm

The Italian fashion giant is the latest brand to back a drive to end the practice of sandblasting denim

The glamour of Milan's ready-to-wear fashion industry may seem far removed from dangerous Third World sweatshops. But Italy's style capital has become the unlikely focus of a battle to save some of the world's poorest textile workers who campaigners claim have died from a widespread industrial technique used to make clothes for the West.

The Independent