Abloni: l'export de la surconsommation
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Format: Electronic Video
Language:French
Published: Watertown, Mass. Documentary Educational Resources c2008
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Item Description:Originally produced: 2005
"Abloni reveals how the second-hand clothes business creates a livelihood for a whole chain of wholesalers and retailers; how it supports charities and recycles waste products in rich countries; how it destroys the textile industries and traditions in poor countries; how it revolutionizes style and fashion in places as far away as a small village in central Togo; how wearing the simplest bit of clothing--like a second-hand shirt from Canada-- becomes, in an African village, a political, economic, and cultural "statement"; and how it has led, too, to the birth of a new hybrid African style, creatively mixing western fashions and local textiles and patterns"-- Container
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