Sustainable and Ethical Fashion Documentaries
The film and the entertainment industry have indeed given us some interesting documentaries to help us gain more knowledge to share. Speaking of documentaries, you can find a bunch of them on food, relationships, animals, environment, and history on the internet. However, if you are a fashion junkie and care about sustainable fashion, you will be pleased to know that there are a few iconic documentaries that you can watch for free. Everything you need to know about the evolution of sustainable fashion to where it helps in our environment - it is important to keep yourself as informed as possible if fashion is your passion. Our small contribution to the Fashion Revolution is to tell you about a few of the documentaries that changed the paradigm of fashion, which also inform a lot of choices when buying fabric and when making other everyday consumption decisions.
1. THE MACHINISTS - Directed by Hannan Majid and Richard York.
The film documents the exploitation of garment workers in Bangladesh with the personal stories of three young women working in factories in Dhaka. The documentary is seen through the eyes of 3 garment workers and looks at their everyday lives, their struggles at home, the constant battles they face with their factory owners and puts a face to the men and women who make clothes for our high street.
2. RIVER BLUE – Directed by Roger Williams, David McIlvride
Following international river conservationist, Mark Angelo, RIVER BLUE spans the globe to infiltrate one of the world’s most pollutive industries, fashion. Narrated by clean water supporter Jason Priestley, this groundbreaking documentary examines the destruction of our rivers, its effect on humanity, and the solutions that inspire hope for a sustainable future.
3. THE TRUE COST OF FAST FASHION – The Economist
Filmed in countries all over the world, from the brightest runways to the darkest slums. Millions of tonnes of clothes end up in landfill every year—it’s one of the fastest-growing categories of waste in the world. How can the fashion industry continue to grow while addressing the environmental need for people to buy fewer clothes? The True Cost is an unprecedented project that invites us on an eye opening journey around the world and into the lives of the many people and places behind our clothes.
4. THE NEXT BLACK – Directed by David Dworsky, Victor Köhler
The New Black is a documentary film that explores the future of clothing. Watch as we meet with some of the most innovative companies on the planet to get their opinion on clothing and its future, including: heroes of sustainability, Patagonia; tech-clothing giants, Studio XO; sportswear icon, Adidas; and Biocouture, a consultancy exploring living organisms to grow clothing and accessories.
5. UNRAVEL – Directed by Meghna Gupta
Unravel follows the Western worlds least wanted clothes, on a journey across Northern India, from sea to industrial interior. They get sent to Panipat, a sleepy town and the only place in the world that wants them, recycling them back into yarn. Reshma is a bright, inquisitive woman working in a textile recycling factory in small time India, who dreams of travelling the vast distances the clothes she handles have. While Reshma shows us how these garments get transformed, she and other women workers reflect on these clothes. Despite limited exposure to western culture, they construct a picture of how the West is, using both their imagination and the rumors that travel with the cast-offs.
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