Exhibiting Fashion’s Potential to Empower the Disabled
By Cheah Mi Chelle
July 2023 FEATURE
UNDERNEATH THE GLITZ and the glamour of the fashion industry lies a dark underbelly. The textile and garment sector alone contributes 10% of humanity’s carbon emissions. Fast fashion — mass-produced clothing that is cheap yet stylish — pegs a hefty price tag on the environment, and more often than not, depends on underpaid sweatshop workers slaving away under unsafe working conditions.Fast fashion has transformed clothing into a disposable commodity, with people more likely now to throw their clothes away when...
Cheah Mi Chelle
is a copywriter and a Bachelor’s and Master's graduate in English and Related Literature. A huge fan of sentient robot fiction, she loves volunteering with children and is interested in various topics such as the study of emotions, embodiment, and the relationship between image and text, particularly in comics and graphic novels.
