FASHION REVOLUTION WEEK 22ND - 29TH APRIL 2023
We love fashion. But we don’t want our clothes to exploit people or destroy our planet. We are coming together as a global community to bring our manifesto into reality.
Fashion Revolution Week is our annual campaign bringing together the world’s largest fashion activism movement for seven days of action.
Fashion Revolution Week 2023 marks 10 years since the Rana Plaza tragedy. Using the 10 points of our manifesto as building blocks, our Global Network of Fashion Revolutionaries in 75 countries are bringing people together to build a vision for radical change.
The theme for this year’s Fashion Revolution Week is MANIFESTO FOR A FASHION REVOLUTION.
We love fashion. But we don’t want our clothes to exploit people or destroy our planet. We are coming together as a global community to bring our manifesto into reality.
Back in 2018, we created a 10-point manifesto that solidifies our vision to a global fashion industry that conserves and restores the environment and values people over growth and profit. Since then, over 14,000 people around the world have signed their name in support of turning these demands into a reality.
As we approach a decade of campaigning for systemic change in the fashion industry, we are bringing together our global community to be curious, find out and do something around each manifesto point. From supply chain transparency to living wages, textile waste to cultural appropriation, freedom of association to biodiversity, we are sharing the solutions to fashion’s most pressing social and environmental problems. And we need you to join us.
Over the past ten years, the noise around sustainable fashion has only got louder. But meanwhile, real progress is too slow in the context of the climate crisis and rising social injustice. That’s why we’re making Fashion Revolution Week 2023 an action-packed and future-focused campaign that amplifies solutions from historically overlooked places. In our process, we are led by the plurality and diversity of our global Network, passing the mic to Fashion Revolutionaries from around the world
We believe that while fashion has a colossal negative impact, it also has the power and the potential to be a force for change. Join us to expand the horizons of what fashion could – and should – be.
24th April marks 10 years since Rana Plaza. On 24 April 2013, the Rana Plaza factory building in Bangladesh collapsed in a preventable accident. More than 1,100 people died and another 2,500 were injured, making it the fourth largest industrial disaster in history. During Fashion Revolution Week, we are #RememberingRanaPlaza and the lives lost, and demand that no one dies for fashion. As we reflect, we are both inspired by the progress made in the Bangladesh Ready-made Garment (RMG) sector and reminded of the changes still needed throughout the entire global fashion industry.
Rana Plaza was not the first or last garment factory disaster and was symptomatic of wider pressures felt by producer countries worldwide. Rana Plaza further exposed the widespread lack of transparency across global fashion supply chains, and how a lack of visibility can ultimately cost lives. Without transparency, issues remain hidden and unresolved at their root.
It is not by coincidence, but by design, that within the global fashion industry, garment worker wages are artificially low and that brands continue to source from regions where it is impossible, difficult and/or unsafe for workers to form trade unions and bargain for greater rights. The global fashion industry has persistently relied on voluntary commitments which have long preserved the status quo. A lack of living wages, freedom of association, collective bargaining, health and safety and traceability continue due to poor progress on transparency in these areas. A critical first step toward accountability, therefore, is greater transparency.
The International Accord and the improvements made in the RMG industry in Bangladesh serve as an example of why binding obligations, enforceability and the indisputable inclusion of workers’ voices in decision making are necessary to foster positive change toward a fair fashion industry. We pay tribute to the joint efforts of all Accord stakeholders who have significantly contributed to safer workplaces for over 2 million garment factory workers in Bangladesh, especially the global trade unions representing garment workers who were at the forefront of this ground-breaking agreement. Read more on our blog.
GET INVOLVED
THINK GLOBAL, ACT LOCAL
Fashion Revolution is a global movement with 75+ teams all over the world. Search for your local team to support their events and campaigns during Fashion Revolution Week.
FIND YOUR COUNTRY
JOIN THE CONVERSATION
Contribute to our brand new Fashion Revolution Week world map. We’re looking for IRL discussions you’ve had with your family and friends to re-map the fashion conversation.
CONTRIBUTE
SPREAD THE WORD
Find a collection of promotional content, including social media assets, posters and the official Fashion Revolution branding pack. Everything you need to spread the word!
DOWNLOAD CAMPAIGN ASSETSMANIFESTO FOR A FASHION REVOLUTION
Also available to read in Español, Italiano, Português (Brasil), Português (Portugal) and Türkçe.
BE CURIOUS
What would the fashion industry look like if this were true? Map your conversation
FIND OUT
Ask Who Made My Clothes
Read garment worker diaries
DO SOMETHING
Sign and share the Good Clothes, Fair Pay campaign
Write a postcard to your policy maker
BE CURIOUS
What would the fashion industry look like if this were true? Map your conversation
FIND OUT
Ask Who Made My Clothes
Read the Good Clothes, Fair Pay blog
DO SOMETHING
Sign and share the Good Clothes, Fair Pay campaign
BE CURIOUS
What would the fashion industry look like if this were true? Map your conversation
FIND OUT
Ask Who Made My Fabric
Read the 2022 Fashion Transparency Index
Learn why unions matter in the garment industry
DO SOMETHING
Sign and share the Good Clothes, Fair Pay campaign
Support worker organisations
Follow Fashion Revolution teams in producer countries
BE CURIOUS
What would the fashion industry look like if this were true? Map your conversation
FIND OUT
Read Fashion Craft Revolution
Read Artisans Voices
Learn about cultural appropriation in fashion
DO SOMETHING
Join a Fashion Revolution Open Studio event
Attend a local event
BE CURIOUS
What would the fashion industry look like if this were true? Map your conversation
FIND OUT
Read the 2022 Fashion Transparency Index
Explore the Fashion and Race Database
Learn about waste colonialism
DO SOMETHING
Support your country team
BE CURIOUS
What would the fashion industry look like if this were true? Map your conversation
FIND OUT
Ask Whats in My Clothes
Enrol on the Sustainable Development Goals course
Read Restorying Riverscapes
DO SOMETHING
Support your country team
BE CURIOUS
What would the fashion industry look like if this were true? Map your conversation
FIND OUT
Read Loved Clothes Last
Read the Small but Perfect toolkits
Ask #DondeTerminaMiRopa / #WhereDoMyClothesEndUp
DO SOMETHING
Tell a clothing love story
BE CURIOUS
What would the fashion industry look like if this were true? Map your conversation
FIND OUT
Read the 2022 Fashion Transparency Index
Ask Who Made My Clothes
Ask Whats in My Clothes
DO SOMETHING
Sign and share the Good Clothes, Fair Pay campaign
BE CURIOUS
What would the fashion industry look like if this were true? Map your conversation
FIND OUT
Read the Small But Perfect toolkits
Learn about industry degrowth
Read Money Fashion Power
DO SOMETHING
BE CURIOUS
What would the fashion industry look like if this were true? Map your conversation
FIND OUT
Follow Fashion Revolution Open Studio
Find your local Fashion Revolution team
Read the How to be a Fashion Revolutionary guide
DO SOMETHING
Sign and share the Good Clothes, Fair Pay campaign
Sign the manifesto
Support your country team
Sign the manifesto
Our power is in our numbers. If you share our vision for systemic change in the global fashion industry, show your support by signing the Manifesto for a Fashion Revolution.
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To stand up for those who make our clothes to make the world a better place
Rachael Seaton
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Because the fashion industry needs to change! It also has the capacity to make a positive impact on the lives of workers and communities all over the globe.
Pamela Coneybeare
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Fashion expresses freedom and your individuality - who you are on the inside to the outside world.
Nikki Eclarinal-Lee
