Versace brand joins anti-blasting exercise

People have not always associated Milan's garment industry with the sweatshops of the third world countries, but recently the campaigners claimed that many workers died in the special clothing tactics used by the garment industry. Milan also became the sport’s center.

The Versace brand said yesterday that it will fully support the campaign to ban the use of sandblasting to create jeans. Sandblasters ** damage the workers' lungs and long-term work in this environment will have serious consequences. This month, a group of ** groups said the Versace brand used sandblasting to make jeans. They attacked Versace's Facebook site and announced that it would boycott all of the brand's clothing. The Versace brand thus closed the Facebook site. The Versace brand said that it had conducted a comprehensive investigation last year and did not find that the factory used sandblasting methods. Yesterday, the Versace brand publicly stated that it will adopt a more active strategy and join the industry association’s campaign to support the ban on sand blasting.

The statement made by the Versace brand can be said to be a huge victory for the event's sponsors. Brands like Levi Strauss, H&M, and Karen Millen also joined the sport. The method of sandblasting was regarded as illegal by European official organizations in 1966. In 1950, Britain had already banned this method.

The organisers of the campaign stated that sandblasting has caused the deaths of many workers in Turkey and Bangladesh and also caused severe silicosis. The organization said that in the past year alone, 46 Turkish workers had died of silicosis caused by sandblasting. Although Turkey has banned the use of sandblasting techniques in March 2009, the disease continues to spread and it is expected that more than 5,000 people will suffer from the disease in the next five years.

Yilmaz, 31, is suffering from silicosis. Currently, he can only rely on government relief and other means to maintain treatment. He said that he used sandblasting techniques to make jeans for Italian designer brands from 2002 to 2005, and he suffered from silicon. pulmonary disease.

U.S. government scientists say that the lungs of patients with silicosis are filled with fluids that can cause symptoms such as difficulty breathing and lack of oxygen. These symptoms can be triggered within a few weeks to four to five years.

Dominique Muller of the Clean Clothes Campaign organization said: "I very much welcome the Versace brand to join the sport, but in the future I hope that they will open up the supply chain and other related areas, so that we can better understand the related efforts they have made for this campaign." Many high-end luxury brands did not say whether they joined the sport. Many brands are not even willing to participate in the discussion.