Ethical fashion? No, this is not an oxymoron

Free Bradley Manning ! Louis Vuitton taiga Slogan and a coarse screen smiling face of the U.S. Navy , the disclosure of state secrets to WikiLeaks condemned sensitive , adorned the models T- Shirts 2014 spring / summer menswear show by Vivienne Westwood Milan. There was an air of anarchic politics , suitable for 73- year-old British fashion designer and queen of punk and properly made ​​headlines in the press the next day. But was quite unnoticed another message , subtle and sustainable , hidden in bags models as they walked along the landing path. Metal brackets bags Vivienne Westwood and logos were a mean age of brass Kenyan named Steve , who lives expressed in the largest slum in the world. There is little glamor in Kibera , a sea of ​​rusty corrugated iron on the outskirts of Nairobi filled sewers and house somewhere 200000-800000 people and open garbage - no one ever expected . Steve once traded in the scrap brass , but then he met an Italian man named Simone Cipriani energetic working auto parts melt and turn the resulting alloy small gold balls, which started once meant right , but now my the Westwood brand. Louis Vuitton utah He earned enough to make a dozen citizens of Kibera and collectively this group has their precarious existence in a solid link in the global supply chain of fashion shot deal . The poor are reliable people , says Cipriani , his accented English to Italian and a good dose of enthusiasm . In fact, in a place like Kibera, the only way to survive is through incredible abilities independence and entrepreneurship . What appears to be a scandal - African slums objects for fashion accessories that sell for hundreds of pounds - is part of the Ethical Fashion Initiative, a program under the auspices of the United Nations and the World Trade Organization has an unlikely embrace between development agents and the fashion pack created . Cipriani is the leader and founder and although there is nothing new in the clothing trade , no one was able to make good fashion on the heights of the most coveted brands in the world . Employees include Cipriani Westwood and Stella McCartney in the UK, Sass & wait in Australia and United Arrows in Japan, with 7,000 people who received job and a way to escape poverty in Kenya, Uganda , Ghana, Burkina Faso and Mali in Africa and Haiti in the Caribbean. Hermes lindy Together they are fashionable in the slums.