Bangladesh is the beating heart of the global fast fashion business. The clothes its factories export stock the shelves at H&M, Gap and Zara. Over three decades, this has transformed the country f ...

Sitalakhya River near Narayanganj, Bangladesh. Image by P.K.Niyogi via Wikimedia Commons. The many costs of ‘fast fashion’: In April 2013, the eight-story Rana Plaza fashion factory collapsed ...

In a crowded industrial district on the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, a seven-storey building is stacked with cartons labelled with Australian fast fashion brands like Millers ...