Nikkie Plessen, one of the regular experts of RTL Boulevard, has been completely demolished on public radio. She has been placed there as an empty shell exploiting poor children in Bangladesh.
Janneke de Bijl, columnist of NPO Radio 1, was very annoyed by an item that was in RTL Boulevard last week. It was about the summer sale. “A woman came into the picture with her own clothing line, who said: ‘Of course I prefer not to do a sale, but yes, you have to. You don’t want that old junk in your shop anymore!’”
sunk deep
That woman is Moïse Trustfull, the daughter of RTL presenter Quinty Trustfull. “That’s how low we have fallen in the Netherlands: we call brand new clothing less than half a year old old junk. As if all that wasn’t bad enough, Nikkie Plessen came over with some tips,” says Janneke.
Nikkie recommended buying things in the sale that you won’t wear that often anyway. “Her tip was: just go for a more outspoken item, for example a zebra coat, you can only wear it once or twice, it’s not worth it for the full price, but it is for a 50 percent discount.”
unbelievable
It is unbelievable that RTL offers a stage here, says Janneke. “Southern Europe is on fire due to climate change, Africa is starving due to our disproportionate environmental impact and Nikkie Plessen coolly advises us to buy clothes that you don’t really want and plan to hardly wear.”
She continues: “So that we use as much gas as possible and exploit as many other parts of the world as possible. It wouldn’t surprise me if she gives the tip next week to just leave your guest burners on all day, so that when you start cooking, all you have to do is put the pan on the fire.”
Millionaire
Nikkie’s interests are obvious, says Janneke. “Of course it is also in Nikkie’s interest that we continue to buy clothes that we don’t need. She has become a millionaire herself with her own clothing brands and those are not clothing brands that contribute in the slightest to a better world.”
Good on You, the website that assesses clothing brands in areas such as child labor and environmental pollution, gives Nikkie’s brand the lowest verdict. Lower than Primark. Nikkie refuses to be held accountable. “Then we actually know enough already. ‘We avoid’ is the conclusion of Good on You about Nikkie’s clothes.”
exploiter
Unfortunately, not everyone listens to that, Janneke continues. “The Netherlands avoids nothing at all. Nikkie Plessen has no fewer than 523,000 followers on Instagram and is regularly described as a business woman to take by example. And that makes me perhaps most sad, that it apparently pays to make your profession out of emptiness.”
Recently, Nikkie threw a big beach party for her staff. “Funnily enough, the children from Bangladesh were not invited. Or maybe they did, but they couldn’t come because they didn’t follow the dress code.”
“Everyone had to wear a white dress, so that even more clothes were bought for free. I would say: Nikkie, choose the zebra coat as a dress code next year, then all those women can wear it a third time!”
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