Despite the fact that this catastrophe may now be considered “old news” in relativity to current events, it is crucial that the collapse should not pass without being effectively marked. Noted as the worst factory collapse in history, the Rana garments factory cave-in took the lives of 1, 129 workers; nearly one and a half times the population of Vatican City and larger than most rural villages in Bangladesh.

Since the turn of the century, luxury fashion brands have been in high demand throughout the world of style. One of the first high-fashion houses to come to fruition was that of Louis Vuitton in France in the year 1854 and, for the one-hundred and sixty years that followed, several other fashion houses have cropped up and gained esteem with consumers à la mode.

In the year 2011, a 16-foot, 7,500-pound mountain of fabric was constructed over Hong-Kong’s Central Star Ferry Pier. This colourful work of art stood to raise awareness of textile waste in the Chinese metropolis, ultimately representing a mere 3% of the daily textile waste in Hong Kong.