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  Poor living standards. Rising global temperatures. Gendered and racialised violence. Ecological collapse. The biggest challenges of our time are rooted in the exploitation of people and the planet for the profit of a few. Today’s fashion industry thrives on an imbalance of global power and money, fine-tuned by centuries of colonialism and imperialism. The richest fashion companies get richer while millions of garment workers - many of them women - are underpaid, overworked and unprotected.

  Fashion brands pump out billions of clothes every year through worker exploitation and environmental extraction. Their overproduction models are depleting our soils, poisoning our water, polluting our air, fueling deforestation and biodiversity loss and pumping out planet-warming emissions. Meanwhile, landfills and rivers are overflowing with barely worn clothes, burdening communities with polluting textile waste.

  The climate and ecological crisis isn’t some distant threat. It’s already here and it’s deepening inequalities. The same workers struggling to get by are paying the highest price of climate breakdown. Floods, fires, storms and heatwaves are closing workplaces, threatening jobs and endangering workers’ health and safety. Excessive production targets are becoming harder to meet in extreme weather. Poverty wages and a lack of social protection are leaving workers without a safety net when disaster strikes. Union-busting is silencing workers’ demands.

  Change is possible but so many "climate solutions” championed by governments and fashion brands are leaving workers worse off. Jobs are being lost, wages are being unpaid, and workers are being excluded from decisions about their future that are shaping their lives today.

  We know we can’t repair an industry broken by design. Instead, we’re building a new, just fashion system that centres the dignity of workers and the restoration of our planet. This shift won’t happen overnight. It will take a combination of short-term reforms and long-term systems transformation. These two tracks of change build on each other in the ongoing struggle for just fashion.

  Our manifesto outlines a set of principles for a just fashion system that must underpin all action about the future of fashion. A just fashion system is one that
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• provides decent work, a high quality of life and equal rights to all workers along the supply chain.

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• delivers justice in all its forms - social, economic, gender and climate - now and in the future.

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• redistributes wealth into the hands of workers.

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• ensures that the costs of climate adaptation and mitigation are fairly shared.

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• is shaped by decisions made by and with workers.

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• restores nature and operates within planetary boundaries.

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• reduces overproduction alongside an increase in job security.

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• holds companies and their executives accountable for any damage they cause.

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• embraces new, just ways of making, transporting, selling, using and valuing clothes.

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• is built through a movement of collective power and global solidarity.

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Our vision is a transition to a just fashion system where…
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• +02. Intro