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Quiz 2018 | Answers
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Round One | Who Made My Clothes?
7. In January 2017, brothers Erwin and Krystian Markowski were
1. 24 April 2018 will be the ___ anniversary of the Rana Plaza jailed for six years for trafficking men to work in a clothing
garment factory building collapse in Bangladesh warehouse. In which country was that warehouse located?
10th Argentina
5th Israel
2nd Turkey
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Savar_building_col- UK
lapse Source: https://www.drapersonline.com/news/traffickers-
jailed-for-bringing-workers-to-sports-direct/7017921.article
2. 100 days after the Rana Plaza collapse what kind of
memorial did injured workers, family members and workers’ 8. According to Textile Exchange, which of the following
rights activists put in place at the site to commemorate this countries had the most organic cotton farmers in 2015-16?
tragic event?
USA (58)
a statue of two fists thrust to the sky grasping a hammer
and sickle China (3,043)
a stone column listing the names of the 1,134 people who Uganda (6,000)
died there Source: https://textileexchange.org/downloads/2017-organ-
a mockup of a High Street fashion store with photos of the ic-cotton-market-report/
dead in the windows
9. In December 2017, the government in Mauritius changed the
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Savar_building_col- minimum monthly wage in the country to MUR8,140 (US$241)
lapse per month. This was a significant increase for workers in
the textile sector whose wages had previously averaged
3. How many people engaged with Fashion Revolution Week MUR4,000 per month. In 2014, how much did the IndustriaALL
events in 2017? global union estimate the living wage to be in the country?
200,000 MUR14,500 per month
2,000,000 MUR8,000 per month
20,000,000 MUR4,000 per month
Source: http://fashionrevolution.org/about/2017-impact/ Source: https://www.just-style.com/news/mauritius-gar-
ment-workers-win-new-minimum-wage_id132422.aspx?
4. The top scoring brands in Fashion Revolution’s 2017
Transparency Index were Adidas and Reebok. What score 10. According to a 2017 Deloitte / Oxfam report, how much would
were they given out of 100? the price of a $20 T-shirt have to increase for brands to
89 afford to pay its makers a living wage?
69 $0.02
49 $0.20
Source: https://issuu.com/fashionrevolution/docs/fr_fashion- $2.00
transparencyindex2017?e=25766662/47726047 (p.22). Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/
oct/29/just-4-of-what-australians-spend-on-clothing-goes-
5. Which brands scored 1 out of 100 in Fashion Revolution’s to-garment-workers-oxfam
2017 Transparency Index?
Chanel and Matalan Round Two | Be Curious
Dior and Amazon
1. According to Fashion Revolution’s 2017 Loved Clothes Last
Prada and ASOS fanzine, how can you tell if your clothes are well made?
Source: https://issuu.com/fashionrevolution/docs/fr_fashion- Look at the seams: if they’re neat, tidy, smooth, lay flat
transparencyindex2017?e=25766662/47726047 (p.22). and the stitches are close together, that item of clothing
will last
6. In October 2017, shoppers in the USA were expected to spend
Look at the label: if it’s made in Europe or North America,
how much money on Halloween costumes that would only
it must be of better quality that clothes made elsewhere
be worn for one night?
in the world
$34 million
Look at the brand: if it’s an internationally recognised
$3.4 billion designer brand, the extra money that you pay for it is the
sign of true quality
$34 billion
Source: https://issuu.com/fashionrevolution/docs/fr_zine2_rgb
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ba5BnH3An- (p.37).
p5/?hl=en&taken-by=fashrev_deQuiz 2018 | Answers3
2. In December 2017, Boohoo.com, TK Maxx, Miss Bardo and 6. In response to a suggestion during Fashion Revolution’s 2017
Amazon UK were exposed by Sky News for selling bobble ‘Who Made My Clothes’ online course that it was a Western
hats, scarves, shoes, coats and earrings made of fake faux value to impose higher wages on garment workers in non-
fur. What was it made from? Western countries, what did ethical fashion entrepreneur
Kalkidan Legesse say?
hedgehog, clam, porcupine and centipede
It is a Western value to want to be paid fairly for the work
cat, dog, mouse and rat that you do
fox, rabbit, chinchilla and mink During the West’s Industrial Revolution factory workers
lab-grown human hair were paid terrible wages. So we shouldn’t interfere with
the natural economic process of development
all of the above
Paying garment workers more than other people in their
Source: https://fashionunited.uk/news/fashion/boohoo-tk- communities inevitably changes their culture and value
maxx-among-online-retailers-selling-real-fur-labelled-as- system
fake/2017122027362
It’s not a Western value to want to be paid fairly for the
3. Which fashion brand announced that it would no longer use work that you do
fur starting in 2018? Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BWFop-
Canada Goose hOl5Ov/?hl=en&taken-by=fash_rev_mooc
Dior 7. According to Fashion Revolution’s Loved Clothes Last
Gucci fanzine, ‘In North America, ___ million tons of clothing
is sent to landfill every year. That’s about _____
Speedo _________________________.’ What are the missing numbers
and words?
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/guc-
ci-fur-free-commitment-italian-fashion-brand-designer-ani- 10.5, 30 times as heavy the Empire State Building
mal-rights-others-follow-a7998211.html
105, the total weight of every person living in Toronto
4. Why might garment manufacturers in China secretly have 501, half the weight of the burden of existence in an eter-
some of their clothes ‘Made in North Korea’? nally recurring world
labour is cheaper and UN sanctions on North Korea to Source: https://twitter.com/Fash_Rev/sta-
punish its government for nuclear weapon testing do not tus/920247800973144070
include bans on clothing and textile exports
workers are more disciplined that those in China because 8. Fashion Revolution’s 2017 Loved Clothes Last fanzine says
they are not working for the money but for their country how long it takes different clothing materials to decompose
and leader in landfill.
the North Korean city of Dandong where garment factories Polyester dress, 200+ years
are located is only 2 hours by train from the Chinese port Nylon Tights, 30-40 years
city of Dalian
Denim Jacket, 10-12 months
all of the above
Viscose T-shirt, 1-6 weeks
Source: http://www.thefashionlaw.com/home/your-made-in-
china-clothing-may-have-actually-been-made-in-north-kore Linen sleeveless top, 2 weeks
all answers are correct
5. According to an International Trade Union workers’ rights
report released in 2017, which countries’ ‘leaders and Source: https://issuu.com/fashionrevolution/docs/fr_zine2_rgb
business communities continue the race to the bottom to (p.101).
expand their garment sectors to compete with and undercut
the terrible conditions in Bangladesh and India’? 9. In 2017, Fashion United listed the richest people in Fashion.
Macedonia and Cameroon The wealthiest had estimated assets of $71.3 billion. Who
was it and what brands have earned him this wealth?
Madagascar and Canada
Bernard Arnault (Céline, Dior, Fendi)
Myanmar and Cambodia
Hegemon Thasos (Céline Dion, Homies, Trap)
Malicuria and Costa Luna
Amancio Ortega (Zara, Pull&Bear, Massimo Dutti)
Source: https://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/survey_ra_2017_eng-1.
pdf (p.23). Source: https://fashionunited.com/i/list-of-the-richest-people-
in-fashionQuiz 2018 | Answers4
10. In 2017 Louise Ashcroft invited herself to be an artist in 4. According to a Penn State news release, ‘Someday,
residence in London’s Westfield Shopping Mall and created ________________________ _____________________may
a game called Mallopoly for shoppers to play there. How did prevent farmers from exposure to organophosphate
it suggest that players could get closer to Zara’s CEO? pesticides, soldiers from chemical or biological attacks in
the field and factory workers from accidental releases of
stuff the pockets of Zara clothes with wads of fake money toxic materials.’ What are the missing words?
with his face on, then steal it because it’s your wealth
binding global regulations passed by the World Health and
touch the fabrics in the Zara store and imagine you’re World Trade Organisations
feeling his leathery torso, the tufts of hair around his
drooping nipples, the vascular swelling behind his knee- populations of beneficial insects like Ichneumon Wasps,
cap, because you’ve paid for that body Ladybugs and Praying Mantes
print a photograph of him on his superyacht on a plain chemically protective suits made of fabric coated in
white t-shirt with the slogan ‘Broken Morals’, take it into a self-healing, thin films
Zara store, hang it on a rail, and leave it there
all of the above
Source: https://iwanttodiscussthat.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/
Source: http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/
ortega.jpg blog/2017/10/sdg-media-zone-sustainable-fashion/
5. Which of the following films provide vivid insights into the
Round Three | Find Out lives of garment workers?
The True Cost
1. According to Stella McCartney’s Clevercare advice series,
what percentage of the carbon footprint of clothes comes Living Wage Now
from the way we care for them.’ What is the missing Tears in the Fabric
percentage?
Clothes to Die For
10%
all of the above
15%
Source: a) https://truecostmovie.com/ b) https://www.youtube.
25% com/watch?v=PxFwA-jw3X4 c) https://www.youtube.com/
52% watch?v=TiPm0tfdZ6w d) http://clothestodieforfilm.com/
100% 6. A Chinese garment company is investing $20 million in a
factory that will produce 800,000 Adidas T-shirts a day in
Source: https://www.facebook.com/stellamccartney/vide-
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. Who will make the T-shirts?
os/10154776143259864/
migrant labourers from Mexico and El Salvador
2. According to Fashion Revolution’s Loved Clothes Last
fanzine, ‘There are ________ clothes left unworn in the recently laid off newspaper and medical school workers
wardrobes of ______ citizens, a ______ ___ items per person’. former detainees of Pulaski County Jail
What are the missing numbers and words?
sewbots
thousands of dressing up, Canadian, embarrassing 12
Source: http://www.innovationintextiles.com/automated-sew-
3.6 billion, American, whopping 57 bot-to-make-800000-adidas-tshirts-daily/
Source: https://issuu.com/fashionrevolution/docs/fr_zine2_rgb
(p.14). 7. Why did thousands of garment factory workers in Ashulia,
Bangladesh making clothes for Gap, Zara, H&M and other
brands go on strike in December 2016?
3. Which Nobel laureate supported Fashion Revolution in 2017,
and for what did they win their Nobel Peace Prize? to protest rising food and housing costs and wages so low
they could not afford these necessities
Professor Mohammed Yunus, for his ‘efforts to create
economic and social development from below.’ in response to dozens of their colleagues, union leaders
and a TV reporter being arrested and charged with unfair
Al Gore, for his ‘efforts to build up and disseminate greater
or apparently fabricated criminal cases
knowledge about man-made climate change.’
because they learned for the first time what their rights
Malala Yousafzai, for her ‘struggle against the suppres-
were as workers, after completing an NGO survey about
sion of children and young people and for the right of all
their knowledge of these rights in November 2016
children to education.’
Source: http://fashionrevolution.org/wp-content/up-
Source: https://twitter.com/Fash_Rev/sta-
loads/2017/04/Garment_Worker_Diaries_Bangladesh_Inter-
tus/861166504892669952 and https://www.nobelprize.org/
im_Report.pdf
nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2006/Quiz 2018 | Answers5
8. According to the World Wildlife Fund’s 2017 Changing 2. In September 2017, Abercrombie & Fitch published its
Fashion report, how many tonnes of CO2 does the clothing rainforest free fabric policy. A year earlier, how had 50
and textile industry emit every year? activists from the Rainforest Action Network put pressure on
the company to commit to it?
0.7 trillion
infiltrated a fancy event in a New York City hotel where an
1.7 billion Abercrombie & Fitch executive was meeting company
71 million shareholders to distribute a report detailing rainforest
destruction and human rights abuses in the company’s
Source: https://www.wwf.ch/sites/default/files/doc-2017- supply chains
09/2017-09-WWF-Report-Changing_fashion_2017_EN.pdf (p.3).
performed a rainforest themed flashmob at a Hollister
9. According to University of Chicago research scientist Joshua store in Detroit, Michigan and placed stickers on its cloth-
Elliott, climate change could mean that, in 50-100 years ing that read “Warning: This item may contain rainforest
time: destruction.”
our clothes will include higher percentages of synthetic entered the company’s annual 5K charity run near its
fibres like polyester whose manufacture emits less corporate headquarters in Columbus, Ohio as #teamrain-
greenhouse gasses than natural fibres like cotton forest to directly engage with its executives, employees
and families.
our clothes will contain lower percentages of organic
cotton because it is outperformed by conventional cotton used social media to encourage their friends and family
when it comes to climate change mitigation members to leave 1 star reviews for the company’s
mobile shopping app on iTunes.
there will be a northward shift of US crop belts so that
parts of Iowa could be growing cotton and the Deep South Source: https://www.ran.org/anf_success
– where cotton is currently grown – will probably be too
hot to grow anything 3. The Bangladesh Accord comes to an end in May 2018. In
June 2017 companies, NGOs and unions agreed that it will
Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-crop- continue. What is the Bangladesh Accord?
harvests-could-suffer-with-climate-change/
a three door hatchback now being manufactured by for-
10. According to a Pulitzer Centre report on the Bangladesh mer garment workers after the Bangladesh government
tannery industry, what does chromium sulphate do to the decided to diversify exports in 2014
leather hides that are tanned and the skin of the people who the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh
tan them? which aims to ensure that the country’s garment factories
turns them green, and removes their hair are made safe and stay safe
turns them blue, and causes serious skin and respiratory Source: http://bangladeshaccord.org/2017/06/press-release-
irritation new-accord-2018/
turns them red, and causes persistent dry coughs 4. During 2017’s Fashion Revolution week in Brazil, how did
Source: https://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/bangladesh-tox- activists draw public attention to the question ‘Who made
ic-tanneries my clothes?’
dress Porto Alegre’s iconic statue of O Laçador (the las-
Round Four | Do Something sooer) in a white tshirt asking ‘Quem fez minhas roupas?’
float giant letters spelling out ‘Quem fez minhas roupas?’
1. According to the Rainforest Action Network, how were down the iconic canals of Santos, São Paulo and post
Abercrombie & Fitch helping to destroy rainforests and aerial photos on Instagram
threaten the livelihoods of the indigenous people who live in
them? float a giant sign saying ‘Quem fez minhas roupas?’ over
the Iguazu Falls during a live TV broadcast of Ryan Pyle’s
rainforest wood pulp is used to make materials like rayon, ‘Tough Rides: Brazil’.
viscose and modal in Indonesia and other countries
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BTSDKucAcrR/?tak-
rainforests are cleared to create grazing land for cattle en-by=fash_rev&hl=en
whose hides are used to make shoes in Brazil and other
countries 5. Which mobile social shopping app has Orsola de Castro
rainforests are cleared to build garment factory Export praised for helping young people trade rather than trash their
Processing Zones in Egypt and other countries unwanted clothes?
Source: https://www.ran.org/anf_success Depop
Clash Royale
Tweetpee
Source: http://www.refinery29.uk/2017/04/149832/rana-pla-
za-four-year-anniversaryQuiz 2018 | Answers6
6. In October 2017, Zara shoppers in Istanbul found extra labels 10. How do Rebecca Earley and Kate Goldsworthy imagine a
in clothes that said ‘I made this item you are going to buy, future in which clothing and textile waste is no longer a
but I didn’t get paid for it’. Who wrote them and why? problem?
Zara CEO Amancio Ortega as part of the company’s edgy we wear and share clothes via clothing libraries and an
‘Bravo’ advertising campaign which aimed to attract Airbnb style wardrobe service
fashion revolutionaries to shop in their stores
all large volume factories have effective disassembly
People working in a factory owned by the Bravo Corpo- units in which surplus garments can be regenerated,
ration in Turkey that had closed overnight and left them reused or upcycled
with 3 months of unpaid back pay and no severance
food waste will be made into clothes: grape leather from
Members of the Turkish craft activist Bravo Squad who wine industry waste, jersey-like fabric from leftover milk,
encourage people to write and add messages to clothes silky materials from orange peels
in stores to alert shoppers to factory conditions in gar-
ment supply chains all of the above
Source: https://apnews.com/e41d4976b67f4616be- Source: https://issuu.com/fashionrevolution/docs/fr_zine2_rgb
772b118a9cb947/Unpaid-Turkish-clothes-makers-tag-Zara- (p.117)
items-to-seek-help
7. According to Elizabeth L Cline, which country is the world’s
largest exporter of used clothing and which is the largest
importer?
USA and Pakistan
Japan and Malaysia
Germany and Kenya
China and Hungary
Source: https://issuu.com/fashionrevolution/docs/fr_zine2_rgb
(p.94).
8. Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda have recently
implemented bans on the importation of used clothes and
shoes in order to encourage local garment production. Why,
according to Andrew Brooks, is this policy unlikely to work?
it goes against the principles of free trade meaning
that consumers will have to buy more expensive locally
made clothes
new clothes which will be cheaper than locally made
clothes can still be legally imported
neither of the above
Source: https://issuu.com/fashionrevolution/docs/fr_zine2_rgb
(p.97).
9. How do South Korean fashion brand RE;CODE design waste
out of their clothes?
use industrial waste materials including seat covers,
airbags and car interior fabric to make jackets, bags and
laptop cases.
collect decommissioned Korea Fire Service hoses and
reclaimed leather to make bags, belts and phone cases
mix discarded fishing nets, plastic bottles, tyres and cof-
fee grinds to make swimsuits, sneakers and accessories
Source: https://issuu.com/fashionrevolution/docs/fr_zine2_rgb
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