It’s been a decade since the Rana Plaza building collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, taking with it 1134 lives and bringing the human cost of the fashion industry starkly to light. The building housed five garment factories that made clothes for a host of well-known international brands. More than 2500 injured people were pulled from the rubble.
The scale of the disaster served as a lightning rod for action to address unsafe conditions for garment-factory workers and wider issues around the industry’s effects on people and the planet. Amanda Butterworth, a former shopaholic, is among those trying to bring about change, in her case with a needle and thread.
Auckland-based Butterworth