Život na míru – Rabij Marek (2021)

Clothing has the value of the label sewn onto it. Do you feel like you absolutely need a new t-shirt? Before you get one, read Marek Rabij's book. Overtime, child labor, long shifts, factories in crumbling buildings: the price of European fashion. When the eight-story Rana Plaza textile factory collapsed in Dhaka in 2013, burying more than a thousand people in the rubble, a Polish reporter traveled to Bangladesh. He spoke with people who lost their loved ones. He observed work in other similar factories. He found out how trendy distressed jeans are made, how much people are paid for it, and how they live on that income in slums. Customers in Western countries have played along with the game that global brands have imposed on them. If we want to follow trends, we must constantly buy new clothes. Over and over again. Perhaps we only occasionally complain that the production cost must be much lower than the price in our favorite store. Replacing fast fashion with a 'slow' approach won't be easy, especially if we weren't moved by such a tragic event as the one that happened in the Bangladeshi capital. The report book by a Polish journalist and Southeast Asia expert is tailored for those who do not close their eyes to uncomfortable truths.