NAME / TEAM NAME: 1. Fashion Revolution Quiz 2017 Answers

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1 NAME / TEAM NAME: 1 Fashion Revolution Quiz 2017 Answers

2 2 Quiz 2017 Answers The answers to the quiz are revealed in the pages below. All answers are definitive and final. They can be fact checked using the links associated to each question. Obviously it is up to all participants not to cheat and spoil the fun! We d love to hear your feedback about how you find this quiz and also any ideas for next year. Thanks for joining the Fashion Revolution!

3 Round One Who Made My Clothes? 1. Which Italian film director took to social media in April 2015 to ask Polo by Ralph Lauren #whomademyclothes? a) Bernardo Bertolucci Source: 2. Visiting an American garment factory during her campaign for the US Presidency in 2016, Hillary Clinton said to its workers that she would really like to ask rival Donald Trump to explain why he paid workers to make Trump [branded] instead of making [them] right here in Colorado. Fill in the blanks. b) Chinese, ties Source: 3. According to Fashion Revolution s 2016 Transparency Index, which fashion brand is the least open about who makes their clothes? a) Chanel Source: 4. What role do Phnom Penh s Rat Trap Door Factory and Cow Poop Factory play in the Cambodian Garment industry? b) they are two of many unregulated factories whose workers don t have employer injury and worker health insurance but make clothes for factories which do. Source: 5. In 2015, Myanmar introduced its first ever law to set a minimum wage of $83 per month. Why did the Confederation of Trade Unions Myanmar say this was not enough? e) all of the above Source: 6. During Fashion Revolution Week in 2016, how many brands responded to #whomademyclothes requests on social media? c) 3500 Source: 7. During Fashion Revolution Week in 2016, how many garment workers and makers used Twitter and Instagram to say #imadeyourclothes? d) 6200 Source: 8. Girls, women [living in Bangladesh s countryside] didn t even dare to think they would ever cross the borders of their village. Now they go to Dhaka [and work in garment factories]. They fight for survival, but also for rights. Before, brothers would send them dresses for celebrations, now what? c) both of the above Source: 9. In April ,135 people were killed when the Rana Plaza garment factory complex collapsed. In July 2016, 41 people were indicted for their murder. Why (allegedly)? a) for illegally adding floors to the building and for forcing workers to enter it despite concerns that its structure was visibly cracking Source: isn t until we it (WILL.I.AM). What is the missing word? b) waste Source: Round Two Be Curious 1. In 2016, which celebrity s new line of sportswear was exposed by a British newspaper for being made by slave labour in Sri Lanka? a) Beyoncé Source: news/ /exposed-sweatshop-slaves-earningjust-44p-an-hour-making-empowering-beyonce-clobber/ 2. What did Kanchana N. Rawanpura add to this story based on her academic research in the Sri Lanka garment sector? d) all of the above Source: 3. What was unique about the series of short films about the lives of garment workers announced in November 2016 by the Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights in Cambodia? b) they were made by a garment workers who had trained to become citizen journalists Source: 4. A report in The Nation describing Romania as Europe s cheap sweatshop includes an account by a garment worker called Bleydea who cannot earn the country s minimum wage without working overtime. How does she get to the end of the month? d) all of the above Source:

4 5. A team of refugees competed in the 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janiero. What flag design did the notfor-profit Refugee Nation commission for them and what was its inspiration? a) orange with a black horizontal line, inspired by the lifejackets worn by those fleeing conflict Source: 6. According to Orsola de Castro, what would you have to do in your daily life to create the patterns of wear on distressed denim jeans? a) spend an inordinate amount of time with your trousers slightly down rubbing your thighs with something rough Source: 7. According to a 2012 Clean Clothes Campaign report, at least 2,000 garment workers in Bangladesh are employed to distress jeans. How do they create patterns of wear? a) they use compressors to blow powerful bursts of sand through a gun to blast and batter the denim. Without protective blasting cabinets or ventilation, workers breathe in tiny particles of blasted sand that can cause severe breathing problems Source: der_jeansindustrie_in_bangladesch_full_report_ccc_ Deadly_Denim.pdf 8. Which fashion model and actress took to Instagram in April 2016 to ask designer Stella McCartney #whomademyclothes? a) Amber Valletta Source: Wut_6oAf5/?hl=en 9. What is coining and how did graphic photographs of this lead to change in one garment factory in Cambodia? b) workers scrape their skin with coins to cool down in the intense factory heat. Photos of coining bruises led to the installation of air conditioning by an Italian brand sourcing its clothing there. Source: According to Zady CEO Maxine Bédat, the 150 billion clothes that are produced every year is enough to: b) give every person in the world a whole wardrobe of clothes Source: Round Three Find Out 2. There is a brand called AURIA whose swimsuits are made from Econyl. What is Econyl made from? b) waste carpet, clothing and fishing nets Source: 3. Salma Akter Meem, general secretary of a newly formed union in a garment factory in Bangladesh, has argued that if workers are safe in a factory and not afraid to raise their voices for a safe and healthy work environment and living wages to support themselves, their workplace contributions will increase, benefiting and. What are the missing words? c) the employer and the country Source: 4. How are Microfinance Opportunities and Fashion Revolution planning to give consumers a vivid sense of what it s like to be a garment worker? b) by asking 600 garment factory workers to keep diaries detailing their work and how they can live on the money they earn, and how they cope with unexpected events like family illness. Source: 5. According to the Labour Behind the Label, what killed and injured 7,227 garment workers in Cambodia in 2015? a) road accidents while travelling to work in vehicles built to carry goods Source: 6. In November 2016 hundreds of indigenous weavers travelled to Guatemala City s Congress building to lobby for legal reforms. What, among other things, did they want these to prevent? c) both of the above if there is no consultation with Mayan communities Source: 7. According to Fashion Revolution s first fanzine, when you break down the costs of a $29 t-shirt, who gets the largest amount? a) retailers Source org/photos/ a / /?type=3&theatersa / /?type=3&theater 1. 80% of our fashion is made by? c) women between the ages of 18 and 24 Source

5 8. According to the US Department of Labor, in which four countries are garments produced with both child and forced labour? a) Argentina, India, Thailand and Vietnam; Source: 9. In January 2017, Natalie Portman spoke at the Los Angeles Women s March while wearing a Dior We should all be feminists t-shirt which had been the most Instagrammed look of Paris Fashion Week. Which author collaborated with Dior to create it? c) Chimamda Ngozi Adichie Source: jan/24/this-is-what-a-feminist-t-shirt-looks-like and chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-stop-telling-me-feminism-hot 10. In December 2016 Japan Airlines announced that it wanted to turn used clothing into what? b) seat covers Source: Round Four Do Something 1. How many pairs of hands are said to have touched a pair of jeans before it appears in store for 29.99? d) 100 Source: 2. On Black Friday in a Hamburg shopping district, how did one Greenpeace activist draw attention to that day s wasteful purchase of discounted clothes? a) take used clothing to dress as a trash queen with an enormous train carried by others as she carried a shopping bag saying Trendy today, trash tomorrow. Source: ZIFJJBH8LU 3. According to the USDA, how many jobs does the cotton industry generate in the USA? c) 200,000 Source: 4. On April Deniz Ucok tweeted Massimo Dutti to ask who made her t-shirt, using the hashtag #whomademyclothes. How did its parent company Inditex respond? b) by asking her to send them a photo of its labels and then responding with a detailed list of suppliers, links to their website, how many people worked for them, and information from social audits of the factories involved. Source: 5. When asking #whomademyclothes, why do we sometimes need to think about people who mine limestone? a) if you wear a wetsuit, its neoprene could have been derived from limestone which can cause chronic respiratory symptoms if its dust is inhaled by those people who work with it Source: and At the Met Ball in May 2016, actress, model and activist Emma Watson wore a sustainable dress on the red carpet. What was it made from? c) plastic bottles Source 7. In 1996 there was a series of bombings and robberies in Washington by a white supremacist gang. How did garment workers help the FBI to identify one culprit? b) the unique wear pattern along one jean inseam caused by workers feeding them manually through a sewing machine was captured on CCTV and matched to a pair he owned Source: pdf/ / The METIS Arts Project toured a piece of work called World Factory in the UK in It tried to place audiences in the shoes of garment factory owners in China. How? b) it transformed the theatre into a series of competing Chinese clothing factories in which audiences were given roles and instructions Source: 9. In April 2016, what Fashion Experience did shoppers in São Paulo get when they entered a shipping container that looked like a discount store? b) they entered a dark space whose walls were video screens showing footage of hidden processes and people in garment supply chains. We must investigate the human beings on the other side of our clothes. Source: KnoDHXd4 10. Which fashion brand sells a Christmas sweater that it claims you will be able to wear every year for 30 years? b) Tom Cridland Source: