Topshop’s Top Woman Slams Unethical Sales

You’ve got to wonder just how Topshop, H&M, and the like manage to crank out millions of pieces each season while keeping their prices at rock bottom.  Unfortunately, those in the know, know, and aren’t too happy about it. 

The Independent reports:

The woman who turned Topshop into a temple to cheap chic has risked
the wrath of her former boss, Sir Philip Green, by warning of an
impending "backlash" against fast fashion.

Jane Shepherdson, who resigned as Topshop’s brand director just days
after the news broke that Kate Moss was to design a range for the
chain, said it was "getting a bit boring" for people to find their
wardrobes full of "cheap rubbish".

She said: "We should always question if something is very, very cheap
and think that if you, the consumer, aren’t paying for it, then
someone, somewhere down the line, is paying.       
         

Those someones are the unfortunate manufactures of the cheap chic attire.  You might remember this protest in 2005 when "Philip Green gave himself £1.2 billion while the workers that produce
the goods for his shops are paid a pitance and work in terrible
conditions."  Apparently, little has changed since then.

This is yet another strike against the highstreet flood; the momentum can’t keep up much longer if even key execs are turning against their corporate sugar daddies in favor of a moral higher ground.

The Independent: Cheap chic unethical and ‘boring’, says former Topshop guru