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In this episode we talk about non-transparent advertising on influencer channels, about deception of consumers who believe that influencers sincerely suggest  products to them, and what can we as customers do in this situation?

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Language: Serbian

The fashion industry is a big climate culprit, but social media continues to encourage our unsustainable consumption of disposable clothing. 

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Language: Serbian

Did you know that in just four days top fashion CEOs earn what a garment worker earns in a lifetime?

Guest: Miodrag Pantović, trade union expert of the Regional Office of the European Confederation of Trade Unions in Belgrade.

Language: Serbian

Fast fashion brands are notorious for being problematic - most fast fashion brands have sweatshops where workers make little to nothing and work under horrible conditions. We also can’t forget to note that fashion is in the top 5 polluting industries on earth, contributing with 10% to air pollution - which is more than tranportation industry. Now, it seems that the industry is trying to capitalize by selling expencive anti-pollution face masks.

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Language: Serbian

Fashion industry is increasingly impacting the environment due to the use of toxic chemicals, water and energy consumption, heavy transportation and non-degradable textile waste. We need to start doing things differently. We wonder, how can we (re)introduce biology to design a less harmful future of fashion?

Guest: Maja Halilović, bio-designer

Social media influencer culture has slowly become one of the most pervasive forms of advertisement. There are multiple perspectives that one can take when analyzing the complexities of influencer culture. While they are all valid, one perspective that seems to go unnoticed is how influencer culture promotes unsustainability and unethical consumption.

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March 8 is International Women’s Day. While women workers are a core part of the global economy, their contributions – and the abuses they experience – often remain invisible. This is especially true for workers in female-dominated sectors such as domestic work and the garment industry that are hidden from the public eye and considered “low-skilled”.

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We live in the age of hyper-consumerism as we buy 400 times more clothes then we did only 20 years ago.  Why do we do that? In this episode we talk about the transformation of fashion magazines - from educational, feminist and knowledged based issues to the modern marketing tools of all big fashion brands. Today, fashion magazines are fueld with ads, telling us that we need to buy IT pieces in order to be cool, on trend, in style.

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Language: Serbian

Greenwashing is the practice of making an unsubstantiated or misleading claim about the environmental benefits of a product, service, technology or company practice. Greenwashing can make a company appear to be more environmentally friendly than it really is.

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The report "Europe's Sweatshops" published by Clean Clothes Campaign documents poverty wages and poor working conditions in the garment and shoe industry throughout Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The report is presented together with new country research into the situation of workers in Ukraine, Serbia and Hungary. The factories featured in the report produce for many global brands, upon whom Clean Clothes Campaign is calling to start paying a living wage and to work with suppliers to improve working conditions.

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Language: Serbian