Source: timesonline.co.uk

The United Nations has turned its hand to fashion to expand the first fair trade comfort accessories label.

Taytu, an entirely Ethiopian label, is named after the country’s primary empress. All its profits would go to the communal of Ethiopian companies behind the label and assurance their employee’s fair pay and safe working conditions.

Unido, the UN’s industrial development organization, collaborated with ITC, its marketing and development branch, on the plan after manufacturers said that they were not capable to compete with mass producers, chiefly those in Asia.

Unido hired two Westerners, counting Barbara Guarducci, an Italian designer, who said that the climate was right for the label the label’s first collection would be accessible at the start of next year.