KATHERINE HAMNETT For Tesco

[dontlookatme!]

I kinda like these, i just saw one of your auctions, don'tlookatme!! Ain't these avail at n-a-p too?

I don't think the choose life ones are on N-A-P....just all the 'bring back god' ones etc. They are really nice in real life, the cotton's really soft.

 

[dontlookatme!]

wow,i think that's quite a good idea actually...if...the use of the fair-trade cottons will be emphasised with the t'shirts?? that seems to be the point,no?

Yeh the points of sale instore all had "fairtrade" plastered all over them and I think it's even printed inside the t-shirts if I remember correctly (away from my tee at the min)....so they really drive the ethical issues home.

 

[Scott]

^yeah. that to me speaks volumes about the premise. how cheaply made clothes at places like these round the world are polluting the earth and by her doing this in this ethical manner,she's setting a standard--in Hamnett fashion,making a very important statement.

she's always so involved and i respect her immensely for that. she just did few t's with my friend for Designers Against Aids(which you can see in the forum!).

 

[Lena]

totally agree...in fact it almost goes againt hamnett's previous anti-big-corporates image......

that's so true Helena

 

[dontlookatme!]

totally agree...in fact it almost goes againt hamnett's previous anti-big-corporates image......

Point taken but surely one of the reasons she was so against huge corporates in the first place was due to their lack of ethical morals and exploitation of workers for cheap, mass production. If these supermarkets (Tesco at least, can't speak for the rest) are trying to take a little more care over these issues and this in turn benefits honest workers who otherwise would have been overlooked for this work in favour of cheap labourers (or even child workers) then why can't she lend them her support? It's not being hypocritical in my eyes, it's welcoming anyone who wants to help into her cause. She would have been more hypocritical if she'd been campaigning for all these years about such issues and then, when Tesco approached her to do this ethical range, refused on the grounds that they'd previously stood for all she disagreed with. Why not help companies who are seeing the errors of their ways?

 

[Beautiful Stranger]

I don't think the choose life ones are on N-A-P....just all the 'bring back god' ones etc. They are really nice in real life, the cotton's really soft.

http://www.net-a-porter.com/product/21291

 

[dontlookatme!]

http://www.net-a-porter.com/product/21291

Yeh that's the LIFE one, that's been out a few months. The LOVE one is exclusive to tesco, different cut and fit too.

 

[Beautiful Stranger]

You wrote " i don't think the life ones are on n-a-p"... I've never written, as far as i know, that the love ones are on net-a-porter.

 

[Spacemiu]

She is working the system, good for her.
tesco is liek walmart of England? I think it would be great to have some one put fair trade T shirts in wlamart, even if its still walmart.

 

[dontlookatme!]

You wrote " i don't think the life ones are on n-a-p"... I've never written, as far as i know, that the love ones are on net-a-porter.

Ah mais oui! You are right!
I meant "Love"......it's coz I posted about the love ones and then u said "aren't these on N.A.P" so i thought u meant that particular one. Soz!

 

[snowqueen]

hmm i totally missed this .. im guessing they will all be sold out in my local tescos by now .. but also i find it so ironic they are being sold in tescos in fact tbh im not sure i would want to surport it .. but maybe thats just me

 

[Beautiful Stranger]

Ah mais oui! You are right!
I meant "Love"......it's coz I posted about the love ones and then u said "aren't these on N.A.P" so i thought u meant that particular one. Soz!

yeah, no worries

 

[ApertureRomance]

When I first heard this my initial thought was 'huh ?'.

But Tesco are awful for paying low wages and apparently there is only one postcode in the whole of the UK that doesn't have a Tesco so you can see how money hungry they are.

On a fashion level these t-shirts don't appeal to me but I like how they're making people more aware etc. I just hope that the message doesn't get blinded , lost and forgotten like the Anya Hindmarsh one.

 

[manolocraver]

Malaysian TFSers, lets urge Tesco to bring the tees into Malaysia... at least we don't have to fly out and buy something designer-made from hypermarkets abroad.

 

[homeboy]

Tesco? You've kidding me. This whole designer-jumps-in-bed-with-store chain has gone out of hand.

 

[Meg]

just because a tee is made with fairtrade cotton doesn't mean it wasn't sewn by cheap underpaid labour.

I'm kind of disappointed since I think she'd be better selling these from her website and therefore going around all of the badness of Tesco's but oh well. I'm still going to wear my boyfriends original Clean Up or Die tee.