Ethical Fashion...

Should all fashion be ethically produced?
There are always people fighting for and against this question. On one hand there is the ethical and moral fight and on the other the economical. There are many concerns about the exploitative working conditions for people who make cheap clothing for the high street. Adult and child workers are often under paid and abused, the cheap high street clothing means that only a tiny amount of the money goes to the people who make them. Alot of textiles that are produced in these factories are treated with toxic chemicals, they damage the environment and can be transfered to the skin. These unethical practices not only affect the people who make the garments but also the imediate environment. Growing cotton has become unsustainable because of the damage it as done to the Aral Sea in Central Asia, it has shrunk to 15% of it's former volume because of the amount of water needed to produce and dye cotton. Growing cotton uses 22.5% of the world's insceticides and 10% of the world's pesticides. These chemicals are harmful to the world.
Animals are also produced unethically, for their fur and skin. Designers such as Stella McCartney do not use Fur or leather in their designs. In an advert for the animal rights organisation PETA, she said: 'we address  ethical or ecological questions in every other part of our lives except fashion. Mind-sets are changing, though, which is encouraging.'
In an ideal world all fashion would be ethically produced, however for now we have to resign ourselves to the fact that it's not an ideal world but it's changing. People are fighting for a fairer world and slowly wining.