Billionaires out of fashion!
On the 19th and 20th September, No Sweat joined forces with Labour Behind the Label, War on Want, Remake and other activists in the Rana Plaza Solidarity Collective to protest Big Fashions Billionaires.
On Friday 19th we paid a visit to London Fashion Week to highlight the damage done by big brands and their billionaire owners.
Inspired by the orca pods that have reportedly attacked super yachts or the ultra rich, we took our own anti-sweatshop orca pod to London Fashion Week to attack their exploitation of workers.
While workers starve, the top 10 fast fashion brands collectively raked in 13.9 billion dollars in profits in 2024, enough to triple the annual wages of 4 million Bangladeshi garment workers.
Then, on the 20th September, the Rana Plaza Solidarity Collective gathered in Central London to join the Make Them Pay demonstration – a global day of action highlighting inequality in the lead up to COP 30 in Brazil. We marched together in a Billionaires Out Of Fashion bloc and demanded radical change in the fashion industry.
We believe that while a £2 dress or £1 bikini is a sign of a broken fashion industry, so is a superyacht.
The only reason the yachts owned by men like Amancio Ortega (Zara), Bernard Arnault (LVMH) and Jeff Bezos (Amazon) even exist is because they deliberately squeeze every penny they can out of garment workers.
📸 credit : Kim Ford