Love it or leave it, designer collaborations aren’t going anywhere. In fact, they are sought after. What many consumers don’t understand, and this is by design and lack of transparency in supply chains, is that in order to keep prices low, brands pay their garment workers poverty wages. What’s more, is that these practices grossly exploit the environment.

The age of the Victoria’s Secret Angels sauntering down the runway and gracing the cover of the Victoria’s Secret catalogs has come and gone. And now, in a way, has come again with the return of the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. While gone is the era of the VS Angels that once embodied and epitomized sexy, the company seeks to expand its view of what sexy means to all women.

There is growing concern from the international community as to the safety and rights to a fair trial of those incarcerated as the Iranian regime has already publicly executed three protesters after closed, biased hearings. The unlawfulness of the trials has been stressed by human rights groups due to a lack of legal counsel and the overwhelming prevalence of torture and coerced confessions.

One thing is never one thing. While this article is largely about Women’s Body Autonomy (or lack thereof) and how women are viewed through the lens of their clothing, at its core, it is about Mahsa Amini’s death in Iranian police’s custody for not wearing her hijab properly and the current state of Iran in the wake of the protests that followed.

Rather than weaving the fair and dignified treatment of women into their fabric and ethos, brands like Victoria’s Secret, Lululemon and Athleta have demonstrated, time and again, little to no regard in actually holding up these professed values.

Sadly, it typically takes a tragedy for the world to sit up and take notice of the atrocities that are an everyday experience for many people on this planet.