Group “B”: Eniola, Khalida, Andrew, Steve and Jeanault The ethical question we have taken under review will consider, “Is there a way to sustain Fast Fashion while maintaining ethical standards?” We had determined that there are a number of key pieces of important information we first need to understand when trying to answer this question. We would need to consider what are the ethical standards required and who determines these standards. We would want to understand what companies, if any, have factories that do meet these ethical standards currently. Also, it is important to consider what the financial cost would be for companies to upscale factories to meet these proposed ethical standards and what impact it would have on their profitability. As well, we would want to have a detailed list of who is in the supply chain of these Fast Fashion companies. Our judgement on this is that if we improve health and safety we will have met a minimum obligation for the workers and stakehol...
Introduction and Ethical Question: The increasingly competitive and fast-moving fashion industry has evolved from designing and manufacturing clothes for biannual cycles to four to six collections a year. While many iconic brands continue to increase sales and profits for years, there has been a growth of issues regarding its lack of sustainability on the environment and severe mistreatment of workers in its supply chain. To that end we propose this ethical question, “to what extent should the consumer care about how the product was manufactured (encompassing the whole supply chain) and what are their responsibilities to it?” Information and Ethical Concepts: In order to answer the ethical question, consumers will need the Fashion retailers to be both transparent and honest about how their clothes are produced and consumers must be honest with themselves. Information including profit margins, worker conditions, workers safety and outcomes (death...