Fashion waste: field research

System
Human
Installation

We hear more and more about fast-fashion the exploitation of workers, environment harm, over-production, over-consumption, low quality products, but we often forget about the post-consumer life of the clothes and its impact on the people and the ground around it.

To understand what the end of the fashion chain looks like, Clémence did a field-research in Ghana for a month. She shared discoveries in the shape of samples collection, map, sound installation, photographs and videos about fashion waste ecosystems in Accra, in and around the Kantamanto Market, biggest second-hand clothing market in the world.