haha Christmas is is actually insane and
these roommates are so heavy and
literally have a huge bag right here Oh
loves apples so let's get into it we
have a rather lot of clothes to get
through today and I was very excited his
web sites are so affordable this was
only eight dollars I think that is a
steal Oh God
hey it's Kristin and I have been fashion
blogging since about 2009 and back then
I wouldn't wear anything I want I buy
any clothes I want any brand brands even
would send stuff to me for free but a
lot of that changed a few years ago when
I saw the documentary the true cost and
from watching that documentary
my relationship with fashion changed
completely because I discovered what the
real consequences of fast fashion are
fast fashion brands are responsible for
the destruction of the environment
because fast fashion is one of the top
hormones polluting industries in the
world as well as the exploitation of
women in countries like Bangladesh
in the countries where these women don't
even have maternity leave where they did
sexually abuse on a daily basis where
they don't even earn enough money to
sustain themselves and their families
this is what fast fashion is and I'm not
making this video to judge any youtubers
here the blame in my opinion Falls
exclusively on these fast fashion brands
the only T that I'm going to spill is to
say that if you are a fashion blogger a
fashion youtuber or anything like that I
think it's really important to be
educated about the topic that you're
profiting from I made that mistake in
the beginning of my fashion blogging
career huge air quotes on that but yeah
I had no clue about how the fashion
industry works and especially the fast
fashion industry which is what I was
mainly involved with and I think it's
very unprofessional to not know anything
about your job and not know anything
about how the fashion industry works but
at the same time recommend close to
people recommend brands to people
without having absolutely any idea what
these brands stand for so yeah just
don't make the same mistake because I
did I have linked in the description box
a lot of videos on YouTube and
documentaries that you can watch if you
want to learn more about how the fashion
industry actually works so we're even
seeing a lot on YouTube lately is a lot
of youtubers making videos where they're
reviewing clothes from fashion Nova
boohoo and a lot of other online fast
fashion brands with really cheap
clothing and really really bad clothing
so what I'm gonna do today is I'm gonna
reach out to these brands to fashion
Nova it's a fool Rome way Chien and I'm
going to ask them who makes their
clothes under what conditions we can
find out some oh yeah let's do this so
the first thing that I'm gonna do is I'm
going to go to the fashion revolution
website because they have a pre-made
ready to send email that you can send to
any brand you want so let's take a look
at the brands that we're gonna be
emailing know okay so let's go first to
fashion so in their About section
they we at fashion Nova believe that
customer is the star the girls from
rocker styles are adventurous
inspirational and badass bike because
they were cheap clothing made by
underpaid women in Bangladesh I don't
think so a nova star is always the
best-dressed girl in the room oh I'm
already so bored I am not finding any
information about where their stuff is
made or just absolutely anything okay so
I have pasted the email I'm gonna add my
personal information over here and I'm
gonna send it out and we're gonna move
on now to Romy
what the hell is wrong with these
websites why do they feel like they're
on crack this is too much too much
happening too much text too many stuff
blinking and moving and like screaming
at me I don't like this I don't like it
at all so it says we deliver from our
warehouses in the US Europe and China to
nearly every country in the world again
warehouse is not the factory that
produces it they say nothing about their
factories I'm not even gonna waste my
time it's just a bunch of fluff fluff
words all these fast fashion stores
literally have the same description
endureth Ava's talent and I'm just gonna
copy paste the same email so the next
best fashion brand work and visit is
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should I even bother like I know it's
not gonna say anything any useful
information so in the about Us section
they do say who owns them which is like
a loan
the other ones so they're owned by Hong
Kong young information technology co
limited yep again just more fluff words
that don't mean absolutely anything I
can't send them an email if I don't
create an account what I'm just kind of
message them on Facebook and the last
one for today is seeing he says where
their warehouses are but again no
information about their production
it says Shan continues to strive due in
part to the company's values in
controlling the excellence of in-house
production where's their house so the
email portion is already and send and
the last one is boo boo hoo social
responsibility all of this is gonna be
so fun oh-ho I am so ready for this yup
again no pictures of factories no
pictures of their workers and
information about them just just
[ __ ] okay so boo who is actually
reminding me a lot of hmm and if you
haven't seen the video that I made about
H
over here but basically this is kind of
like greenwashing
ethical washing where there is no
sustainable way where fast fashion can
be done epically it's just impossible
it's like say saying we can do ethical
slavery or we can have like conscious
ethical slaughterhouses it's an oxymoron
basically I'm not satisfied at all look
at this PDF there's beautiful text
beautiful graphics congratulations on
that but I am NOT getting a lot of
information in here other than you know
whatever you want me to know Google and
this is not enough for me
so with whoo cool I am going to tweak
the email a little bit because they do
how the whole social responsibility tab
on their website which means they
receive this email a lot and I'm gonna
ask them about their factories about
their workers so I'm gonna get a little
bit more in detail with what I would
like to know and hopefully they're gonna
answer so all the emails have been
submitted and we're gonna hopefully hear
back soon and when we do I'm gonna be
back to let you know what they said has
been a few days and I have received
responses from most of the companies and
I haven't checked anything yet so I'm
gonna be as surprised as you guys we
received a response from fashion novo
which is incredibly vague it says
basically thank you for emailing us we
appreciate your feedback we always
strive to be the best in class and
provide our hashtag Nova babes great
products our merchandise is made for
manufacturers all around the world
unfortunately we can no provide you with
our company's personal information due
to legal privacy policies thank you
for being a hashtag novo babe Austin I'm
not very trust me but legal privacy
policies I don't buy that so a bit to
them you can literally go on their
website and find every single factory
and manufacturer and where they are I'm
not praising you to know them in any way
I'm just saying that if H and then can
disclose all their factories from all
around the world where they produce you
guys could do that as well okay so who
has not responded so full respondent and
they said we are not a scam okay that
was not my question
oh the fool was also a disappointment so
I don't beat five brands that I reached
out to only two responded they could
disclose like what countries at least
they're making their stuff and they
couldn't even bother to do that she in
did not respond to my messages but they
sent me six emails contacting me if I'd
like to receiving their products to
advertise on my channel so they
definitely have time to reach out to me
to send emails if I'm going to be
sponsored by them or receipts pretty
shitty clothing but they don't have the
time to answer their customer service
questions about where their stuff is
baby
so Romney also didn't answer my
message but they as well reached out to
me at some point last year if they
wanted to send me free [ __ ] and then
sponsor one of my videos and again no
I'm sorry
no thank you and also no answer from
boohoo either so I am NOT surprised but
very disappointed with the lack of
transparency that these companies have
about their products about where they're
made about the people who make their
products and about the impact on the
environment they seem to be completely
clueless about all that stuff and they
also seem to not even care about their
customers and answering any questions
that they have about their products I do
have to say that as much as I do not
support fast fashion brands like hmm
at least H&M does have a more
transparent production line and I don't
even mean that hmm is a pinnacle of
transparency brands like Shion The Fool
fashion Nova boohoo etc they couldn't
disclose just absolutely anything about
their company and this is a huge red
flag and the fact that there is so much
lack of transparency also puts their
employees in danger the people in the
factories producing these clothes
because they are completely faceless
completely anonymous and they're subject
to incredible mistreatment this way I
hope that if you are one of the people
that used to shop at this place you kind
of are rethinking it now and are
considering me the alternative options
and if you are I have an entire playlist
with a bunch of videos that can help you
shop more ethically to learn more about
what ethical fashion is and why it's so
important to shop ethically just not
only for people but for the environment
for animals just for the betterment of
the world altogether and yeah I hope you
enjoyed watching this video maybe you
learn something from
maybe you are also gonna reach out to
these brands I am gonna make the fashion
revolution email sample in the
description box for you if you want to
do that that would be pretty awesome and
if you do get a response definitely let
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