When Malmö Symphony Orchestra celebrated 100 years, the Crown Princess was 100 years Victoria47, in place to spread royal brilliance over the festivities. Victoria arrived on the red carpet in a daring outfit which consisted of a really startling jacket with silvery fringes. The site Ufo no more specializes in just royal fashion, and they could quickly establish that the jacket was from the Spanish chain Zara.
On the Instagram account The Royal Fashion Police, Which has over 170,000 followers, so Victoria’s jacket has been extensively discussed lately, reports Norwegian Dagbladet.
– Let’s address the ongoing debate: Should royalty carry Zara? Many royalists criticize members from royal families who support Fashion brands such as Zara. The argument then is that they should good more ethical brands of higher quality. Zara as a brand has criticized for her working conditions and the impact they have on the climate, which has resulted in discussions about high -profile people should carry such brands, it sounds there.
The account further writes that Victoria and other royalty dress in Zara and similar brands to seem more accessible, so that ordinary people can afford to buy the clothes they wear.
– Royalty does not carry Zara regularly – it is more a temporary choice rather than a staple in their wardrobe. Of course, we want to see that the royals stop supporting solid fashion, but I have a feeling that it will hardly happen soon, says Royal Fashion Police.
Crown Princess Victoria is criticized for the controversial garment she chose to wear in Malmö. Image source: Stella Pictures.
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The criticism of Zara: child labor and “slave -like conditions”
Zara has on several occasions been accused of using child labor and of their factory workers working under “slave -like” conditions. They should also have exploited Syrian refugees, something that BBC have reported.
The picture shows a child rescued from child labor in India. The picture has no connection to Zara’s factories. Image source: AP Photo/Altaf Qadri/TT Picture
Zara, owned by the Inditex Group, has at its website Posted an account where they clearly distance themselves from child labor, trafficking and “modern slavery”.
It should be about factories in Turkey, according to BBCbut also about factories in South America.
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Zara and “Fast Fashion” in Aftonbladet’s review of Shein
When Aftonbladet Earlier this year made a comprehensive report where the newspaper’s reporters followed a return from the Chinese clothing brand Shein, they ended up in the Atacama desert in Chile, which the magazine calls “the world’s most extreme dumping site”.
There, the reporters saw how several large brands like Gap, H&M, Nike, Shein – and Zara – had their layers, with clothes to be dumped and fired into the desert.
Zara’s store in Stockholm. Image source: Caisa Rasmussen/TT Picture
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Norwegian criticism of Crown Princess Victoria
Ida Elise Eide Einarsdóttir is a fashion journalist, and in a comment to Dagbladet she says that Fast fashion is the climate’s largest enemy.
– The trend has been to try to avoid these brands, so I’m not surprised by the criticism, she says.
Einarsdóttir also says that “it sends a somewhat wrong signal”.
– But it should also be said that Victoria has worn H&M several times. I do not know if the criticism would have looked the same if she had carried something from the Swedish big favorite (instead of the garment from Zara, ed. Note).
Victoria in the criticized jacket from Zara. Image source: Stella Pictures.
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Fashion journalist Emily Dahl: “Time for Hovet to update the closet”
Emily Dahl is a fashion scientist and fashion journalist. She runs the Instagram account The fashion massacre and is heard in the pod Rude to assume. On her Instagram, she pursues questions about Fast Fashion.
– The Crown Princess has historically chosen to carry so -called “budget fashion” from, for example, H&M every now and then. It has given a popular flaire, but the court has obviously not kept up in the debate about Fast Fashion’s backs, says Emily Dahl tilL News24.
Dahl thinks it is “a little strange” that Crown Princess Victoria carries Zara, who is a direct competitor to Swedish fashion companies.
– In addition, Inditex is the company that stands for the second most emissions within Fast Fashion globally. Only Shein is worse, Emily Dahl tells News24.
Emily Dahl says that she has recently been contacted by several followers on social media who have reacted to Crown Princess Victoria’s choice of clothing.
Crown Princess Victoria’s jacket is made entirely of polyester. Image source: Zara
– I have recently been contacted by several followers on social media that are upset that the princess carries both solid fashion and polyester, which is an anything but sustainable material (even when recycled). Therefore, I know that this does not go the princess’s audience unnoticed. And since I am sure that the ambition is to do right and set a good example, it is time for the court to update the wardrobe and cast an eye on the social debate, says Emily Dahl to News24.