Textile industry’s dark side

Immortalised in photos: Visitors looking at photographs in an exhibition that marks 10 years since the Rana Plaza building collapse disaster, in Dhaka. — AFP

Paris: The deadly consequences of fast fashion were spotlighted a decade ago after 1,138 people were killed when the nine-storey Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh.

While the tragedy piled pressure on top brands churning out ever-rising mountains of clothes to ensure better standards, abuses in the textile industry continue:

Victim: Sumi Akhter, a former garment worker who lost her leg in the disaster, putting on her artificial leg in her house in Fordnagar. — AFP