John Oliver Analyzes the Problems With Fast Fashion

The hilarious host of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver takes a critical look at the fast-fashion

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The hilarious host of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver takes a critical look at the fast-fashion industry, something we’re all too familiar with. Calling out retailers such as Gap, H&M, Joe Fresh, Walmart and The Children’s Place, Oliver delves into how the increasingly low cost of fast fashion is made possible — through unsafe factories that are contracted by these retailers in conjunction with child labor and sweatshop-like conditions in poorer countries such as India, Cambodia and Bangladesh. Oliver calls for supply chain reform in the fashion industry, something we should all be more aware of.

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