The majority of us are wearing clothes made by workers paid poverty wages and denied the right to unionise to improve their conditions.
While most companies are happy to make statements about their commitment to ethical practices, these claims are contradicted by demands for ever cheaper prices and faster delivery times.
The horror stories that make it into the news are not just aberrations - exploitation is endemic in the fashion industry from seed to shirt.
This is why People & Planet is taking action to redress fashion.
Main News Stories
Edinburgh Infiltrate Brand New Topshop
This week, Edinburgh People & Planet members old and new demonstrated at the opening of the city's newly refurbished Topshop.
Media get the message on Topshop's unethical trading
Guerilla fashion show at London Fashion Week Topshop event gets press excited
P&P activists strut their stuff outside Topshop's big show
People & Planet activists stage guerilla fashion show at Topshop's big London Fashion Week event
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Tell Primark not to cut and run
In response to an expose of workers' rights abuses in its supply chains, Primark has sacked three of its Indian suppliers. Take action to demand that the company takes responsibility for the impact of its own business practices.
Summer wouldn't be summer without The Gathering
Don't forget to bag your place at P&P's much talked about networking, training and planning event...
Re(dress) Leicester
Media and Communications volunteer Caroline Fielding reports on Leicester University P&P's action on the second national day of action on Topshop in March.
Topshop hit by nationwide student protests
Topshop, which uses the slogan "we love students!", faced demonstrations by People & Planet groups across the country on Saturday 1 March in protest at sweatshop conditions in its supply chain.
Fashionably Fair? We don't think so.
Oxford Uni P&P's campaigning scares Topshop away from a debate about Fairtrade clothing.
Minister joins P&P in saying 'Pants to Topshop'!
In January, Gareth Thomas, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Development, joined school and university students from the People & Planet network in demanding Topshop and the rest of the Arcadia Group transform their poor record on workers' rights.
Redress the high street, redress your campus
The Redress Fashion campaign focuses on what we can do as students to support the struggles of garment workers worldwide.
Following on from actions against Primark last year, we’ll be targeting Topshop on the high street, demanding that it takes the basic step of joining the Ethical Trading Initiative.
On our campuses, we will be campaigning to ensure that our university merchandise is sweatshop-free.
P&P is a member of Labour behind the Label a campaign that supports garment workers’ efforts worldwide to improve their working conditions, through awareness raising, information provision and encouraging international solidarity between workers and consumers. Labour behind the Label coordinates the UK platform of the Clean Clothes Campaign, an international campaign, focused on improving working conditions in the global garment and sportswear industries, and empower the workers in it.
Previous actions
In June, Arcadia asked to meet P&P. You can read a summary of the meeting.
On Saturday 1 March, during Fairtrade Fortnight, our national day of action put pressure on Topshop to make a serious commitment to improving labour conditions in its supply chains. We are calling for a refund on workers’ rights!
On Thursday 6 December 2007 P&P groups in 16 cities around the country hung out Topshop’s dirty laundry on the high street as part of our national day of action to Redress Fashion.
Oxford P&P call on Topshop to Redress Fashion