Fashion Dumpsite: Fashion Kills
Kulturhuset Indre By startede et samarbejde med Fashion Dumpsite omkring Alternative Fashion Week i august 2023, hvor værker fra Fashion Dumpsite Fashion Kills blev udstillet på Charlotte Ammundsens Plads til Alternative Fashion Week x Fashion Dumpsite.
Vi blev i fællesskab enige om at lave en mere permanent udstilling og i samarbejde med Nexel og Sharing Copenhagen fik vi genetableret udstillingen i 12 meters højde på transformerstationen som udgør den ene facade på Charlotte Ammundsens Plads. Værkerne vil blive udstillet indtil udgangen af 2024.
Film: Daniel Liversage
FASHION DUMPSITE PROJECT
The narrative about donating clothes for second-hand use must be changed. A lot of people believe that donating clothes is a good deed. However, the reality is that most items end up as trash on dumpsites in the Global South.
Fast Fashion consumption is on the rise and burdens the environment. In 2022 the industry accelerated into ultra-fast fashion, leading to clothing becoming ever cheaper and of poorer quality. It’s hardly worn, and quickly discarded. Only a small percentage of donated clothing is in a “good enough” condition to be re-sold in Denmark.
In Denmark less than 10% of used clothes get resold in second-hand stores. The rest is shipped off to the Global South.
More than 40% of the collected items received in the capital city of Ghana, Accra, is ”trash” and ends up in “fashion dumpsites”. The Global South is drowning under the weight of your old wardrobe.
In Ghana used clothes are called Obroni wawu, which translates to “dead white man’s clothes”.
About Søren and Alma
Søren has a lifelong career as a photographer and activist, always seeking out the human condition in visual stories. Alma is working with communication and social media within the design and music industry. Both has traveled the world and experienced t