The Fashion Transparency Index provides a snapshot of the most pressing issues facing the fashion sector: lack of transparency on annual production volumes and the number of workers paid the living wage or who pay recruitment fees; lack of communication on sustainable materials, how brands minimize the impact of microfibers or what they do to ensure racial and ethnic equality in their supply chain.
But we must also highlight the progress made:
“In 2016, only five major brands out of 40 (12.5%) disclosed their suppliers. Seven years later, 121 out of 250 major brands (48%) disclose their suppliers. This clearly demonstrates how the index is driving transparency, but also that brands really are listening to the millions of people around the world who keep asking them #WhoMadeMyClothes? Our power lies in our perseverance.”
Carry Somers, co-founder and director of global operations at Fashion Revolution,
