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Castoffs to catwalk: fashion show shines light on vast Chile clothes dump visible from space
The Atacama desert has become a ‘global sacrifice zone’ of used fast fashion. Activists and designers organised an event to raise awareness of the devastation to the land and local people
Draped in layers of denim, Sadlin Charles walks the catwalk of sand between piles of discarded clothes and tyres in Chile’s Atacama desert. Maya Ramos, a stylist and visual artist from the state of São Paulo in Brazil, designed a collection worn by eight Chilean models in the show in April, dubbed Atacama fashion week 2024. Unwanted clothing ends up in the hands of truck drivers who ferry it a few miles to dumps outside Alto Hospicio, an expanding municipality with a population of about 130,000 people.
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