Fashion Victims/Boris’s Babies

Photomontage project, a comment on the fast fashion industry and the use of child labour in developing world countries to fulfil our need for the new.

Fashion Victims: There used to be four fashion seasons each year, companies like Shein and Primark are constantly creating new cheap items of clothing, creating 52 seasons a year, so people with expendable income can buy something new every week. Why wear something again when you can throw it away and buy something new when it costs so little. These companies use poor quality synthetic materials that can not be recycled, greenwashing their labels with the promise that their fabric has been made from recycled plastic. This poor quality fabric then degrades quickly, when carded for recycling in developing countries fine strands of micro and nano plastics are released into the environment.

Boris’s Babies: Due to our governments policy at the time, there have been so many unaccompanied children arriving in refugee camps and hostels in the UK. It has now come to light that many asylum seeking children have disappeared from these hotels. This is due to the decisions made by successive Conservative governments.