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...
Aug 1, 2024
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...
Apr 19, 2024
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...
Apr 17, 2024
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...
Jul 14, 2023
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...
Jul 14, 2022
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...
Jul 7, 2021
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...
Apr 22, 2020
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...
Apr 24, 2019
More brands and retailers are publishing lists of their suppliers than ever before in order to increase the transparency of their supply chain, according to the 2018 Fashion Transparency Index. As of November 2018, 172 brands across 68 companies or parent groups are disclosing information about their production facilities, to various degrees....
Nov 8, 2018
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...
Apr 23, 2018
Fashion Revolution has launched its 2017 Fashion Transparency Index, ranking 100 of the biggest fashion companies on their social and environmental policies, practices and impacts, and has revealed that even top-performing brands are lagging in supply chain transparency. The 100 brands were selected on three factors, they all have annual...
Apr 26, 2017
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...
Apr 18, 2016