The Dollar a Day Dress

BBC's Panorama travelled the world to create a dollar a day dress - a symbol of how the global garment industry can harm poor countries. Steve Bradshaw travelled from the Andes to the Sahara collecting fabrics for an outfit, which was designed and made by a group of London Fashion students and modelled at London Fashion Week by former Eastenders star Tamzin Outhwaite.

On the journey Panorama descover that in Mali the famous Blue Men of the Sahara wear traditional cotton robes - but the country's impoverished cotton farms face unfair competition from subsidized American producers. In Uganda markets are full of second-hand clothes donated to charities in the rich countries - clothes which are desperately needed but help prevent the textile industry recovering from the Idi Amin days. In Peru alpaca farmers remain mired in poverty while the West fails to provide the technological help to rescue the industry from decline. In Cambodia garment workers risk destitution as new trade rules threaten a Race to the Bottom over labour standards.

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