Rana
This piece is of my own artistic efforts to illustrating the horrific conditions of overseas garment factories in a visual form. The particular subject of all the illustrations printed is the Rana Plaza illustrating the garment factory collapse of 2013 located in Bangladesh. With at least 1,132 deaths and over 2,500 injured in the collapse alone, this tragedy is one of the first of the modern media's displays of the extremities of poor working conditions and wages provided in the fast fashion industry.
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The physical garment displays a gathered panel on each side seam of the waist to allude to the physical gouging of these countries' environmental and economic conditions as well as the overall well-being and safety of its employees. Printed on the garment are sourced images of the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse as well as the surrounding and similarly unethical factories in Bangladesh. These images are thresholds of their originals as they look to be printed in blood. The true cost and resources used to make fast fashion garments. These images are displayed in an alternating pattern to suggest reform and the need of building of reformed practices in the fast fashion industry.
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