The Fabric of Change As we approach International Women’s Day 2025 under the UN theme “For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment”, the fashion industry faces a reckoning. While progress has been made since the 1995 Beijing Declaration, the women of the global majority (a.k.a minorities, a.k.a women of color)—remain disproportionately undervalued, underpaid, and unseen. Women working in the garment factories of Bangladesh and cotton fields of Burkina Faso endure s