#StandUpToFastFashion

Fast Fashion Gets Funny with Po-Zu and Comedians Sara Pascoe, Aisling Bea, Deborah Frances- White, Brett Goldstein, Steen Raskopoulos and Sophie Duker #StandUpToFastFashion

Fast fashion is so last year.

Or so we laugh next week, when comedy’s finest minds come together to poke fun at the hypocrisies and shortcomings of the fashion industry (side note, it’s not so funny).

For one night only, comedians: Sara Pascoe, Aisling Bea, Deborah Frances-White (The Guilty Feminist), Brett Goldstein, Steen Raskopoulos and Sophie Duker join forces with ethical shoe brand, Po-Zu (www.po-zu.com) and anti-slavery campaign, Slave to Fashion, (@SlaveToFash), to stand up to fast fashion and raise money for charities Environmental Justice Foundation and The Cup.

Fast fashion is drowning us with mass consumed, disposable and synthetic clothing at a huge environmental and human cost. Unsustainable and unethical businesses are outsourcing the problem in a race to the bottom at the cost of those most vulnerable. In footwear, businesses pump out toxic chemicals with little regard to health and safety. Glues and chemicals are inhaled into the lungs and workers’ rights are abused.

Never has the agenda of global warming and modern-day slavery been more important. But we need to act to create change.

The fundraiser held and organised by Po-Zu aims to raise laughs, funds and eyebrows in the darkest of months, with proceeds going to charities working to mitigate the negative impact of fast fashion.

It is Po-Zu’s mission to provide feet with a unique respite and to halt the damage that modern footwear manufacturing causes to people and planet.