[searchableguy]

I don't think parent or people are against fashion. What they are against is probably brands violating many labour laws in other countries to sell you a non functional piece of "fashionable" cloth at a 10x-100x mark up price stuff.

Fashion can exist without harming the environment or society even if that society is not yours, there are still people suffering in third world. The argument that without these companies, they won't even have a job is plain bad because they have enough margins to justify paying more and investing in safety but they choose not to and consumers support that by purchasing it.

There is also difference between buying cheap produced out of slave labour vs buying expensive produced out of cheap labor. In former, you might not have enough money to be moralistic but in latter, you have a choice to and you didn't which imo makes you more responsible.

[jsinai]

One of the big issues is transparency, and this applies across the entire price spectrum. If people knew that certain brands, luxury or not, were exploiting labour, would some people still be inclined to buy them? It’s easy to say that most people wouldn’t care, but the conversations shift. Look at School Strike for Climate Action as an example.