Batik dresses and bags produced by Global Mamas, a women's cooperative based in Ghana, went on sale today in Topshop's Oxford Street store. The collection was designed by winners of the Design4Life Ghana, Julia Smith a graduate of LCF and Annegrat Affoldabach, a Middlesex graduate.

The collection gives consumers the opportunity to use their spending power and show Topshop that they care about the wages paid to the people manufacturing the clothes they buy. The Ghanaian women manufacturing the collection earn an average of $12 a day compared with the average wage in Ghana of $1 a day.

However, many of the workers producing clothes for Topshop's other ranges do not receive a decent wage. The company recently told its suppliers to cut their prices by one percent, which is likely to lead to an even greater squeeze on wages for workers.

Read the Let's Clean up Fashion report to learn more about what Topshop are -and are not doing- to improve working conditions within the fashion industry.

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