WE ARE NOT CARPETS investigates the centuries-long systematic marginalization and exploitation of carpet weavers. What happens if they weave their own stories and not the samples ordered by clients?
Recherchetool für Materialien
Research Tool for Materials
The materials database contains media on our key topics of working conditions in the textile and clothing industry and the environmental impact of clothing. The types of media include studies, guidelines and reports, as well as films, podcasts and web tools.
Fashion consumption is getting faster and faster and will soon end up in the trash. Designers Jana Heinemann and Sophie Claussen create their fashion from recycled material: new looks – no waste at all.
Deutschland is the largest buyer of fast fashion textiles from Bangladesh after the USA. Both luxury brands and low-cost suppliers have production there, at dumping prices.
Stylish, trendy, ridiculously cheap: The Chinese Fashion brand SHEIN bring thousands newer garments out - every day. Behind stuck a hard-hitting Business model.
Fashion consumption is getting faster and faster and will soon end up in the trash. Designers Jana Heinemann and Sophie Claussen create their fashion from recycled material: new looks – no waste at all.