Activists urged US rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs yesterday to push for better working conditions after revealing clothing for his fashion line was made in a Bangladeshi factory where 111 staff died in a fire.
Labour rights campaigners shot and distributed dozens of images of labelled clothes inside the gutted remains of the Tazreen Fashion factory, where the ferocious blaze took hold late on Saturday.
“We found clothing of ENYCE (Combs’s label) and Faded Glory (a WalMart range),” Kalpona Akter, director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity, told AFP.
She said that clothes also made for German discount line KiK, US firm Dickies, True Desire of Sears, Edinburgh Woollen Mill and several other Western brands had been identified in the burnt-out ruins.
ENYCE and Combs, who was formerly known as Puff Daddy, were not immediately available for comment.
But WalMart, European chain C&A and Hong Kong supplier Li & Fung have been among companies confirming they had clothes made at the factory.
“We are sure that Combs will be as shocked as we are to find that his company is implicated in such an horrific tragedy,” said Liz Parker of the Clean Clothes Campaign, an Amsterdam-based textile rights group.
“We urge him to use his influence to make sure clothing factories are safe places for people to work.”