Press Archives - PayUpFashion

[Vice News] Half of Sri Lanka’s Covid Cases Linked to a Factory That Manufactures for GAP, Calvin Klein, and Victoria’s Secret

by Editor | Nov 19, 2020 | Keep Workers Safe, Press

Vice News reporters Zinara Rathnayake and Ruby Lott-Lavigna investigate a huge outbreak of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, linked back to a garment factory that routinely manufactures for huge Western apparel brands like GAP, Calvin Klein, Victoria’s Secret, and Marks...

#PayUp Urges Brands To Do Better During New Lockdowns and More News from Early November

by Editor | Nov 13, 2020 | Press

This week, the viral #PayUp movement passed 3,000 signatures on its PayUp Fashion road map to reform the industry, and sent an equal number of customized messages to brand executives demanding they make garment worker justice a priority moving forward. #PayUp was in...

[Eco-Age] PayUp Fashion’s Ayesha Barenblat Talks to Eco-Age About the Seven Actions Holding Fast Fashion Accountable

by Editor | Nov 11, 2020 | #PayUp, Press

Eco-Age.com Magazine interviews PayUp Fashion coalition member and Remake founder Ayesha Barenblat about the #PayUp campaign and our Seven Action. Writer Julie O’Driscoll writes, “When the pandemic hit and fast fashion factories shut down, thousands of...

[Fashionista] Garment Workers in LA are Fighting to Change a Long History of Sweatshop Conditions

by Admin | Oct 13, 2020 | Press

Many consumers associate Made in USA with ethical production, but that’s not the case for tens of thousands of garment workers in Los Angeles. Fashionista.com covers the forces contributing to L.A.’s long history of wage theft and labor exploitation in the...

[Eco Warrior Princess] #PayUp Pressure Pays Off: Brands Commit to Paying Billions to Garment Factories

by Editor | Oct 2, 2020 | #PayUp, Press

Eco Warrior Princess covers the devastating decision made by global apparel brands to cancel orders and refuse payment to their garment factories for completed goods worth $40 billion at the start of the pandemic. Currently, at the time of writing, 19 brands on the...

[Fashion United] PayUp Fashion Initiative Launches to Secure Industry’s Future

by Editor | Sep 22, 2020 | #PayUp, Press

Fashion United’s Simone Preuss covered the launch of the PayUp Fashion initiative, writing “In March of this year, US-based NGO Remake together with partnering organisation and labour activist and founder of the AWAJ Foundation, Nazma Akter, launched...