ITALY: Versace bans sandblasting after Facebook campaign
Author: just-style.com | 21 July 2011
Italian fashion house Gianni Versace is to ban its clothing suppliers from using sandblasting, a technique used to give jeans a used look which is highly dangerous to workers, after a sustained campaign by activists on the company's Facebook page.
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