Fashion’s toxic trail: The rag trade’s role in river pollution

Models don masks during the fashion show to highlight the environmental toll of Java

Models parade near polluted river to highlight the environmental devastation caused by the textile industry.

Wearing gas masks and designer dresses, models paraded down a catwalk against a backdrop of polluted, rubbish-strewn paddy fields in central Indonesia, a colourful condemnation of the fashion industry’s role in causing environmental devastation.