A government investigation into factories manufacturing Zara clothes revealed that it cost Inditex (the company that owns Zara) about 1.14 to manufacture a pair of jeans selling at 126 this 1.14 doesn’t go straight to the worker who makes the cloths, but is divided among the parties involved in the entire production process. Although the minimum wage only earned between 156 and 290 a month. Renato Bignami, who led the investigation, said “they work 16 or even 18 hours a day. It is extremely exhausting work, from Monday to Saturday, sometimes even Sunday depending on demand.”