The Truth About Beyoncé's Clothing Line
- William Green
- Feb 7, 2017
- 1 min read
Forget what you thought you knew about Ivy Park...
Beyoncé has made headlines again this week, however this time for all the wrong reasons. Ivy Park was supposed to support and inspire women, with Topshop claiming the brand “empowers women through sport”. This couldn’t be further from the truth as this week it has been revealed that workers at Beyoncé’s clothing line factories in Sri Lanka are still being abused.
Workers at the MAS Holdings factory earn just £4.30 a day, that’s 44p an hour, meaning it would cost seamstresses month’s in wages to buy from Beyoncé’s range, which offer items that cost between £25 to £250.
These allegations against the company first came to light last year, yet according to leaks this weekend the contracts connected with these sweatshop factories still appear to be intact. Most of the people who work under these conditions are young women from poor rural villages. It was reported in 2016 from James Mills at the Sun that a lot of these women can only afford to live in boarding houses and work more than 60 hours a week.
With improvements to working conditions still not being met, it seems the only response MAS has given is to repeat “Ivy Park has a rigorous ethical trading program,” and deny anything is wrong.
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