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'The True Cost' - Official Trailer

UNTOLD · 2M views · 2015-04-24 · 2:35

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Overview

The official trailer for The True Cost, a documentary on the fast fashion industry and who pays for cheap clothing. It touches on garment worker conditions and the Rana Plaza collapse.

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HN cites the film as a source on fast fashion exploitation and pollution.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2018–2021

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spodek · 2018-03 · Strong recommendation

The documentary The True Cost [VIDEO] covers many of the problems with fast fashion -- the pollution, exploitation, and more, but especially the pollution. I stopped shopping those stores since watching it. I recommend it.

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beckman466 · 2021-08 · Reference

> What did Nike do right? Luck and paying the right celebrities for endorsements? Also using sweatshops in the global south to extract superprofits [1]? More and more I'm starting see branding as a way for big companies to slowly condition people to relate emotionally to some spectacle [2] (e.g. an exciting celebrity spokesperson in an advert), distracting them from an often exploitative and unsustainable production process. How many people know about Rana Plaza? [3] It's exciting to see new initiatives like 'Fixing Fashion' though (Alicia Minnaard and Dave Hakkens)[4]. [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK] [3] [VIDEO] [4] [LINK] - short intro: [LINK]

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beckman466 · 2021-03 · Reference

> moving forward with a plan to block incoming sunlight could alter rainfall patterns and cause monsoon rains that millions of farmers in India rely on to dry up First, global north capitalist governments and firms force India (and other global south countries) to make their clothes, [1] their iPhones, [2] and more [3], for peanuts. Then they go and fuck up their food security. What a marvellous system. [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK] , [LINK]

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