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Abloni : l'export de la surconsommation / un film de Alexandre Oktan ; réalisation, Alexandre Oktan ; scénaristes, Lara Fitzgerald, Alexandre Oktan ; produit avec le participation du Fonds canadien de télévision ; produit avec la collaboration de Tele-Quebec, TVOntario ; produit par Mediatique Inc.

Format Video (Streaming) and Electronic
Publication InfoWatertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, ©2008.
Description1 streaming video (52 min.)
Supplemental Content Access restricted to subscribers
Subject(s)
Clothing trade.
Fashion--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Television programs--Canada.
Used clothing industry.
Other author/creatorCaswell, Mark.
Other author/creatorFitzgerald, Lara.
Other author/creatorOktan, Alexandre.
Other author/creatorCanadian Television Fund.
Other author/creatorDocumentary Educational Resources (Firm)
Other author/creatorMediatique, Inc.
Other author/creatorRixas.
Other author/creatorTélé-Québec.
Other author/creatorTVOntario.
Abstract "Abloni reveals how the second-hand clothes business creates a livelihood for a whole chain of wholesalers and retailers; how it supports charities and recycles waste products in rich countries; how it destroys the textile industries and traditions in poor countries; how it revolutionizes style and fashion in places as far away as a small village in central Togo; how wearing the simplest bit of clothing--like a second-hand shirt from Canada-- becomes, in an African village, a political, economic, and cultural "statement"; and how it has led, too, to the birth of a new hybrid African style, creatively mixing western fashions and local textiles and patterns"-- Container.
Date/time/place of a event noteOriginally produced: 2005.
LanguageFrench subtitled in English, and English.

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