#luxurybrands #overconsumption #deinfluencing
Luxury brands are conning people into spending insane amounts of money through deceptive manipulation tactics. Brands like LVMH, a fashion conglomerate that owns Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Fendi and many others are one such brand that marks up their items significantly through clever marketing and leveraging celebrities and luxury influencers to endorse them. It was recently revealed that Dior paid just $57 to produce a bag that they sold for nearly $2,800 to customers. They were also accused of using sweatshops similar to fast fashion brands like Temu and SHEIN. In this video, I deinfluence you from luxury brands by revealing the behind-the-scenes happenings of LVMH and other luxury brands that elucidate how little value luxury, and designer goods really have and how they are a direct result of worker exploitation. Through the overconsumption of luxury brands, we are complicit in the exploitation of workers across the globe.
Sources:
Italy watchdog investigates Armani, Dior after worker exploitation probes
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/17/italy-watchdog-investigates-armani-dior-after-worker-exploitation-probes
Italian Court Reveals Dior’s Unethical Supply Chain And Puts Other Luxury Brands On Notice
https://www.forbes.com/sites/pamdanziger/2024/06/24/italian-court-reveals-diors-unethical-supply-chain-and-puts-other-luxury-brands-on-notice/
The Labor Ab*ses of Fast Fashion and Luxury Brands
https://givingcompass.org/article/the-labor-abuses-of-fast-fashion-and-luxury-brands
Luxury Brand Loro Piana Accused of Exploiting Indigenous Peruvians — Here’s What’s Happening
https://remezcla.com/culture/luxury-brand-loro-piana-accused-exploiting-indigenous-peruvians-heres-whats-happening/
Can Made in Africa transform the continent’s leather industry?
https://www.voguebusiness.com/fashion/can-made-in-africa-transform-the-continents-leather-industry
These Luxury Brands Are Still Harming Animals For Profit
https://goodonyou.eco/luxury-brands-harming-animals/
The Environmental Cost of Luxury Leather Goods
https://earth.org/true-cost-of-luxury-leather-goods/
Sparkling Jewels, Opaque Supply Chains
https://www.hrw.org/report/2020/11/24/sparkling-jewels-opaque-supply-chains/jewelry-companies-changing-sourcing
Diamond Trade Still Fuels Human Suffering
https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/05/10/diamond-trade-still-fuels-human-suffering
Inside Italy's Shadow Economy
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/fashion/italy-luxury-shadow-economy.html
Prosecutors Accuse Dior and Armani of Paying Migrant Workers $2 an Hour to Make Luxury Handbags
https://www.complex.com/style/a/backwoodsaltar/dior-armani-paying-migrant-workers-two-dollars-luxury
The History of the International Diamonds Cartel
https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~lcabral/teaching/debeers3.pdf
Controversy Over Diamonds Made Into Virtue by De Beers
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/22/business/controversy-over-diamonds-made-into-virtue-by-de-beers.html
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