Magdalena Cox Xum is the youngest of a family of four girls and five boys living in San Andrés Xecul in Totonicapán, Guatemala. In this region, only 35% of school-age girls attend primary school and 1% of girls aged 12 to 21 pursue secondary education.
Ethical fashion: A rising trend or empty rhetoric?
Driven by the awareness of a growing number of consumers, the fashion industry is trying, with varying degrees of sincerity, to be more virtuous and more sustainable. But in spite of initiatives to improve recycling, promote exchanges, and the range of rental options on offer, progress to make this highly polluting sector go green remains modest.