In November 2017, the company sold a T-shirt with the slogan “Unemployed” on it, which was quickly withdrawn.
“If you hire more black people and cultivate an environment where people on all levels of the company feel comfortable to speak up, incidents like this will be avoided,” commented The Glowboss the Coolest Monkey incident was not the first time H&M offended. It took 10 hours for Gucci to respond, also on Twitter: “We are fully committed to increasing diversity throughout our organisation and turning this incident into a powerful learning moment for the Gucci team and beyond,” read their statement. Happy Black History Month y’all,” wrote Twitter-user Rashida. Most recently, Gucci apologised for its polo neck jumper and balaclava combo, featuring a cut-out around the mouth outlined with thick red lips that was labelled “Blackface”.
It’s not just the high street either: luxury brands Prada, Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana have all had high-profile incidents where, between them, they have managed to alienate more than half the world’s population. It’s not just H&M – Zara, too, has courted controversy in recent years after selling items emblazoned with Pepe the Frog and swastikas, among other missteps. The demand for a more transparent fashion industry is making it very difficult for brands to make these “mistakes”. People from the factories are now rising up saying that t hey want better wages and better working conditions. The company has claimed that they want to improve the working conditions of the factories but have been slow to react to the multiple fatal disasters.Gucci’s ‘Blackface’ polo neck and balaclave combo. Since 2006, over 700 people have died in poor factory working conditions not including the recent Rana Plaza disaster. Most workers work 14 hours a day including children. Most of the factory workers earn $38 per month. Not only did the fire claim over a thousand lives but it is one of the worst industrial mishaps in many years. Overall, six factories around Bangladesh were missing fire extinguishers, emergency exits and fire alarms and did not practice fire drills.
This is not something new for H&M in 2010 over 50 factory workers were trapped in a burning building near Bangladesh. These underpaid people who are working for H&M are working in unsafe conditions and as a result they suffered a major loss when the factory caught on fire. They have also been in the news for breaking child labor laws Children as young as 12 can work in these factories.ĭhaka Rana Plaza is a factory complex that collapsed in Bangladesh in 2013 killing over 1,100 people. In the past three years, there have been thousands of deaths in H&M owned factories in Bangladesh and Cambodia due to harsh and unsafe factory working conditions. Clothing store company H&M has been under fire for their working conditions in factories around the world.
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