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Ethical Issues inFashion Business
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Ethics - act in a trustworthy, fair, honest, and respectfulmanner*
Employer End of Year Financial information
Tax fraud
Responsibility to pay bills
Ethics in the recruitment process
i.e. cant discriminate bases of age, gender, race, religion,disabilities, weight and attractiveness
In fashion political correctness to stock 1 brand in each suburbor area
Security tags/notifications
Cameras in change rooms controversial
Employees Do your employees have ethical behaviour correct timesheets,
are they stealing money or clothing, are they sharing aboutcompany information
Alcohol, drugs drugs testing
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Ethical Fashion
It can be defined as the production of Textile items
with a conscience. With the concept of social
responsibility gaining ground, corporates all over the
world are recognizing the importance of environmentprotection and ethical business. Fashion houses are no
exception. More and more fashion designers and
textile producers are striving to produce goods that do
not harm the environment and are cruelty-free.
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Ethics Ethical Market Research %
Criteria for a product to be ethical -
% saying very importantNo sweat shops/child labour 70%
Fair price to producers 55%
No damage to environment 45%
Producing community directly benefits 42%
Percentage of profits given to charity 25%
Political situation in producing country 24%
Uses organic fabric 15%
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PETA
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
PETA is an animal rights organization based in
Norfolk, Virginia, USA. With two million members
and supporters worldwide, it claims the status of the
largest animal rights group in the world
It focuses on four core issues:factory farming,fur
farming, animal testing, and animals in entertainment
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Pledge to Lose the Leather With Bigg
Boss Guest Pamela Anderson
If there's one thing that Bigg Boss guest Pamela Anderson loathes,it's cruelty to animals.
That's why Anderson has fired off a letter to Prime MinisterManmohan Singh asking the government to help cattle who areused in the leather industry.
Anderson took a graphic and unflinching look at India's gruesomeleather trade in a hard-hitting PETA US video. In her letter to thePrime Minister, Anderson points out that despite PETA's offers oftangible help to the government and Indian leather industry,conditions for animals used in India's leather trade still remainhorrendous.
In the video footage, cattle are tied together with ropes through theirnoses and beaten mercilessly in forced "death marches" overhundreds of kilometres. During the marches, cattle collapse fromhunger, exhaustion, injury and despair. Handlers force the cattle tocontinue by breaking the animals' tails at each joint (the humanequivalent of having a finger broken) and by rubbing tobacco, chillipeppers and salt into the animals' eyes. The cattle are never offeredfood or even a drop of water.
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ANTI FUR
Confronting those cruelties through majorcampaigns targeting the barbaric practices ofthe fur trade.
Advocating to reduce and hopefully end animalsuffering.
Our intent is to implement meaningfulimprovement of the fate of animals.
Exposing the truth about fur, via creating media
and public awareness Public pressure on fur selling companies.
Promoting anti-fur industry legislation.
Educating the public on animal rights
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YOU MAY NOT KNOW THIS!
China produces 85% of the fur on the
planet and has no animal welfare laws to
protect animals. Fur animals in China suffer
one of the most cruel and savage practicesever heard against defenseless beings. The
hideous cruelty is hidden from consumers
who may not know that each
fur article comes with an unimaginableamount of agony.
All this in the name of fashion
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Social Responsibility
Social responsibility is an organizations obligationto maximize its positive impact and minimize itsnegative impact on the society. In other words, it isthe concept that businesses should be actively
concerned with the welfare of the society at large.
The concept of social responsibility is applicable toindividuals and governments as well asorganizations. The social responsibility of anorganization is referred to as corporate socialresponsibility.
Social responsibility can be broadly divided into twoparts: human responsibility and environmentalresponsibility
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Hanes
Environmental Responsibility
As part of its commitment to environmental
responsibility, Hanes has created Eco Smart
Fleece apparel, which is made in part fromrecycled plastic bottles. Hanes will reuse the
equivalent of 25 million plastic bottles for its
fleece products in 2010. Additionally, Hanes Eco
Smart Socks are made with 55 percent recycledcotton fiber, and the fabric in 67 percent of
Hanes men's and boys' undershirts are made
using renewable energy
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Recycle process
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A Denim recycled to a charpai
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Ethics
Ethical Fashion Forum www.ethicalfashionforum.com
The EFF is committed to supporting andfacilitating sustainable practices in the fashionsector. The ultimate goals of the EFF are toreduce poverty, create sustainable livelihoods,and reduce the environment damage.
Ethical Fashion means different things todifferent people. For the EFF, ethical fashion
represents: an approach to the design
sourcing and manufacture of clothing, which isboth socially and environmentally sustainable.
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Ethics Models
Currently using thin models is seen to be acompetitive advantage so if people in theindustry see skinny models as central their
success, it will be hard for any one company todeviate from the norm. KellyCutrone, owner of Peoples Revolution, saythat women shouldnt
be comparing themselves with these girls (runwaymodels). These girlsare anomalies of nature. Theyare freaks of nature.. Theyare naturallythin andhave incrediblylonglegs comparedto the rest of their body.
Industry self-regulation and Governmentregulation
In Italy they are have banned the use of overly thin models
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Certified Green Labels
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AssignmentChanges in Lifestyle of Indian Consumer
Study the Factors affecting the Indian Fashion
( Region wise)
Content, Subject Understanding, Analysis,Managerial Application, Quality of Report
Group Assignment
Marks-15
Date of Submission 29-11-2010