Star Magazine: Kardashian Klothing Made Using Chinese Slave Labour
December 21, 2011 by Hollywoodite
Oh dear. It’s being reported in the new issue of Star, which makes this its cover, that Kim Kardashian’s family is complicity co-signing the use of slave labour in the manufacture of their Klothing Kollection. Really though, this Star report makes the Kardashians its face since they’re not liked anyway and are easier targets to put a spotlight on the human rights abuses of which other brands/ celebrities are also guilty.
It’s a Star report, so the main details have been released in this week’s RadarOnline.com along with a preview of the cover.
The Kardashians are being accused of co-signing human rights abuses to pad their bottom line, with “slaves” allegedly working silently in hot, un-ventilated, squalid factories that are “like minimum-security prisons,” giving minimal or no bathroom breaks, and “liv[ing] in squalid factory-run dormitories filled with the stench of sewage while toiling up to 84 hours during seven-day work weeks… [earning $1 an hour]. Workers in the region can come out with as little as $15 a month once rent and food debts have been paid to their bosses.”
TMZ.com also reports the investigation, giving the story some legs: “A human rights group is investigating claims that workers in China, as young as 16, are working in squalid conditions to manufacture merchandise for the K-Dash by Kardashian label, the Kris Jenner Kollection and ShoeDazzle.” So… it’s as-yet unfounded allegations about a few of their brands, the rest of which don’t go name-checked. Noted.
Li Qiang, executive director of China Labor Watch, adds: “People like the Kardashians are producing products in China because they will get more profit, since the labor cost is so low compared to the United States and other countries.”
Pimp momager tried to clarify that the stolen Kollection designs weren’t made using slaves. Except there’s no way she’d know for sure since she’s never visited where the items are manufactured: “As far as I know the factories that are used to manufacture the Kardashian clothing and shoes have nothing terrible going on at all and the factories are very well policed and meet factory standards.”
**UPDATE: Added a higher quality cover, right, with this week’s headline: “Officials Launch Investigation: Kardashian Sweatshop Scandal… Family’s fashion empire makes millions from child labour.”
IMAGE CREDIT – STAR MAGAZINE, RADARONLINE.COM
