We're all geese
[Audio track: Italian | Subtitles: English | Originally aired on Rai3 on Sunday, November 2, 2014] For the first time a public television succeeds in providing documentary evidence of the illegal live-plucking practiced on live geese in Hungary. The program reports this criminal, cruel practice which is common in the European Union. The UE is considered as the first responsible for the lack of supervision and for having a set of regulations which enables the easy “recycle” of illegal dawn. Sabrina Giannini’s inquiry starts with the filling of the trendy down jackets, Moncler, analyzing every passage: from the fazone (the term implies the artisan and sartorial phases: from the fabrics’ cutting, to the sewing of all the item parts, including the filling of the dawn’s bags) to the outsourcing, especially in East Europe (but even in Armenia). She highlights the large saving margins which are incomprehensible for a product defined as “luxury” and that got rid of the Southern Italy artisans to save just a dozen Euros on the tailoring. It is a long range inquiry (even geographical) on the choices of some fashion brands that move the production in countries not even recognized by the UN in order to save a handful of Euros on products sold at very high prices in the boutiques. We’re speaking about Transnistria, the Republic founded on the Soviet and self proclaimed independent from Moldova. Here, according to observers’ reports, human and workers’ rights are not respected. As exclusively reported by Sabrina Giannini within a factory in Transnistria, here journalists are not welcome, unlike the brands: Prada is among the most famous ones which were in production during our visit, although many other brands have been produced here (including Moncler four years ago). A jacket which is manufactured here at the cost of 30 Euros for Prada, is sold today in the boutiques at 2000 Euros. Behind this scenario, which is well away from the luxury idea conveyed by commercials, th
