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Anthropologist Giulia Mensitieri Exposes Exploitation in Paris Fashion Industry

Paris Fashion Week ended on October 6, highlighting not only luxury but also the exploitation and precariousness of fashion workers, as denounced by anthropologist Giulia Mensitieri in a recently published graphic novel.


Clara Fontaine
Clara Fontaine
October 7, 2026  ·  1 min read
B-Empire Magazine
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The Paris Fashion Week concluded on October 6, a week marked by luxury, celebrities, and spotlights. However, behind this glamour, anthropologist Giulia Mensitieri exposes a darker reality: the systematic exploitation of fashion workers, who are often poorly or unpaid and live in great precarity.

In her graphic novel Fashion: The Most Beautiful Profession in the World, co-written with Dani Collaterale and published last Thursday by La Découverte / Delcourt, she offers an in-depth investigation that highlights these contradictions of capitalism embodied by the fashion industry.

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