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“We don’t know what fuels fashion” - Fashion Revolution reports lack of transparency

According to a new report by non-profit Fashion Revolution, the world’s largest fashion brands are not working fast enough to cut fossil fuels. “What Fuels Fashion?” (WFF) urges those brands to invest at least 2 percent of their annual revenue into a Just Transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy to power their manufacturing...

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Fashion Revolution on achievements in the last ten years and future needs

In the last ten years, the fashion industry has come a long way - the simple question, “Who made my clothes?” could not be answered after the collapse of the Rana Plaza building on 24th April 2013. Rescuers had to dig through the rubble looking for clothing labels to figure out which brands were producing clothes there. Even then, brands and...

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Timeline: 10 years of Fashion Revolution

The collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Savar, Bangladesh, which housed garment factories, shook the industry - more than 1,100 workers lost their lives and around 2,500 were injured, many of them gravely. The accident, one of the deadliest disasters in the history of industrial manufacturing, shed light on an area that normally remains in...

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Gucci tops Fashion Transparency Index, Savage X Fenty lands at bottom

The fashion industry still has a “long way to go” when it comes to tackling global inequality and the climate crisis. That is the conclusion that Fashion Revolution made based on the latest edition of the annual Fashion Transparency Index. With an average score of 26 percent, only 2 percent higher than last year, fashion brands made "impressive...

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Fashion’s transparency continues to disappoint according to 2022 Fashion Revolution index

A new Fashion Transparency Index published by nonprofit Fashion Revolution has once again highlighted fashion’s lack of progress in transparency, with it this time emphasising the urgency needed to tackle both the climate crisis and social inequality. Now in its seventh edition, the index has ranked 250 of the largest international fashion...

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Fashion’s progress on transparency still “too slow”

Fashion Revolution has released its 2021 Fashion Transparency Index and states that transparency in the fashion supply chain is still “too slow” among 250 of the world’s largest fashion brands. The Index from the global fashion activism movement, now in its sixth year, analysed and ranked 250 of the world’s largest fashion brands and retailers...

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H&M, C&A and Adidas/Reebok top 2020 Fashion Transparency Index

Just in time for the 50th celebration of Earth Day and seen in a whole different light in view of the current coronavirus pandemic, non-profit Fashion Revolution has published the fifth edition of its Fashion Transparency Index that looks at 250 of the world’s biggest fashion brands and retailers, ranked according to how much they disclose about...

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Adidas, Reebok and Patagonia top 2019 Fashion Transparency Index

Adidas, Reebok and Patagonia were the highest ranking brands in this year’s Fashion Transparency Index, published by non-profit organization Fashion Revolution. They all scored 64 percent of 250 possible points. The three companies are followed by Esprit and H&M, who both scored 61 percent. This is the first time that any brand gets a score...

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Adidas, H&M and M&S among the world's most transparent fashion brands

London - Change towards a more sustainable future may be slow within the fashion industry, but the leading companies, such as Adidas, H&M, and Esprit have taken steps to become more transparent over the past year. According to Fashion Revolution’s Transparency Index 2018, which reviews and track 150 major fashion companies based on their social...

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Global fashion brands show “shamefully” low levels of transparency

London - Global fashion brands must do more on transparency, Fashion Revolution has warned as its launches its inaugural Fashion Transparency Index to mark the start of Fashion Revolution Week, which runs from April 18-24. The report comes ahead of the three-year anniversary of the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed...