Swedish apparel retailer H&M has bagged the third position out of 100 companies in the fashion transparency index published by Fashion Revolution based in the United Kingdom.
Fashion Revolution is a global coalition of designers, academics, writers, business leaders and parliamentarians calling for systemic reform of the fashion supply chain.
The Fashion Revolution Week gathers people in 70 countries around the world, whose ending date (24 April) marks the anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh, and whose main objective is to support a message, a commitment from the whole fashion supply chain towards transparency across the length of the value chain.
Fashion Revolution Week creates awareness on some of the most important issues in the textile industry, issues that are important parts of our sustainability work to create greater transparency and good working conditions across the fashion industry.
For this year’s Conscious Exclusive collection that was launched on April 20 H&M introduced a transparency pilot and presented a transparency layer on hm.com for all products in the women's collection. Information that is communicated on hm.com includes: the factory's name and address, number of workers, worker interviews, information about the materials, information about the design team and how to take care of the garment.
To be able to publish this detailed information is an important step forward in our work toward a more transparent fashion industry. H&M's goal is to develop a consumer labelling system that allows customers to compare products’ sustainability performance, also between different brands
The Fashion Transparency Index 2017 reviews and ranks 100 of the biggest global fashion and apparel brands and retailers according to how much information they disclose about their suppliers, supply chain policies and practices, and social and environmental impact.