Help the REAL fashion victims, darlings

Fashion designers l i ke Posh and the rest are always keen to show off their charitable side — but only for glamorous causes, darling.

Yet isn’t it a shame that so few of the big names — in fact, none — have done anything to help the wretched workers who toil under appalling conditions in garment factories in india and Bangladesh?

Two years ago, more than a thousand workers were killed and more than 2,000 injured when the eight- storey Rana Plaza factory building near Dhaka in Bangladesh collapsed.

Yes, the factories mostly supply clothes to the cheaper end of the i ndustry and some high street retailers such as Primark have contributed.

however, shouldn’t the major fashion houses do more? after all, they’re all in the fashion world together. and the workers continue to be maltreated.

Families of the deceased were given $200 (£129) in compensation after the accident — but only if they could prove by Dna that a relative had died. obviously, because of the nature of the tragedy, not everyone could. Many families have received nothing because they could not back up their claims.

Two weeks ago, Bangladeshi police finally filed murder charges against 42 people, including the building’s owners. Who knows where this is heading, but i know one thing. There have been dozens of fashion charity balls and glitzy fundraisers since the catastrophe. Yet none of the millions raised goes to help the poor bereaved souls of Dhaka.

i’d have a lot more respect for those in the fashion industry if they cared about this, rather than about themselves.