Article 23 – ethic, organic and smart

The name of the Parisian fashion label refers to article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that says:
“(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.”

The designers from Article 23 not only take to heart, what the United Nations couched in 1948, they also walk the talk. The collection-pieces are made from 100% organic fabric and are sewed within a development aid- program in the Slums of South India. The sewing-manufactory already employed 250 women who escaped from terrible social and economic circumstances. The women not only get fairly paid, they as well get schooling and education as secure housing and living space. Combined with the designs from Article 23, the evolving collections do not only meet the qualitative and aesthetic expectations of the modern fashion market - they can also be marked with a label of extra merit regarding materials and production.

Inspired by the glamorous golden twenties the spring/summer collection of Article 23 builds a bridge from then to now. First-class materials like jersey, silk, satin, cotton and poplin are felicitously mixed and vitalize the collection that is kept in white, black and red. This is how modern fair trade fashion looks. Keep in mind! Buy!

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