Fast Fashion - What's it doing to the planet and people?
Courtesy of: Pebble Magazine
If you have a chance take 5 minutes of your time and read this article in full.
https://pebblemag.com/magazine/living/cheap-clothes-cost-the-earth-river-blue-fast-fashion-doc
At the end of the day it just validates what Rok Cork lives and breathes as their company ethos. When manufacturing our beautiful collection of Cork handbags, wallets, purses, backpacks, we focus on:
- No mass producing
- Quality over quantity
- Using sustainable materials
- Transparency in the supply chain
Would you not rather pay a bit more and know that your hard earned dollars are not supporting the unbearable conditions these people have to live and breathe.
"Cheap leather goods have created a poisonous brown swamp in Hazaribagh in Bangladesh that employs 180,000 people, many of them children, working with no shoes or gloves or mask. It holds the ignoble title of the second most uninhabitable place on earth."