FASHION REVOLUTION | FASHION TRANSPARENCY INDEX 2021
ABOUT THIS INDEX
THE ROLE & AIMS OF THE FASHION TRANSPARENCY INDEX The Fashion Transparency Index was created to: •
Incentivise major brands and retailers to disclose a greater level of detailed and comparable data and information year-on-year by leveraging their competitive tendencies
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Analyse trends and compare the level of transparency on human rights and environmental issues among the world’s largest and most influential fashion brands and retailers
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Create a tool that helps a wide set of stakeholders to better understand what data and information is being disclosed by the world’s largest brands and use the findings to take further action
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Shape our ongoing efforts to raise public awareness and educate people about the social and environmental challenges facing the global fashion industry, using this research to inform people’s activism
Since last year’s edition, we have heard from many in our community who feel frustrated by the speed of change in the fashion industry. Given the climate emergency and
persistence of human rights abuses in the industry, many people are crying out for urgent and systemic transformation now. We hear you, and we share your frustrations. This is why we have made some notable changes to the methodology this year, moving focus from policies and commitments to implementation and outcomes, see pages 31-36 to read more. For the time being, while so much of the global fashion industry remains opaque and abuses go unseen, driving transparency is absolutely necessary, and we believe the Index has a valuable role to play in this. We hope that someday in the near future, campaigning for transparency will no longer be needed as the industry moves on to other crucial actions. Ultimately, the aim of the Index is not just transparency in and of itself. The aim is for this information to be used by individuals, activists, experts, worker representatives, environmental groups, policymakers, investors and even brands themselves to scrutinise what the big players are doing, hold them to account and work to make change a reality.
''Be transparent. Let's build a community that allows hard questions and honest conversations so we can stir up transformation in one another.' Germany Kent, broadcast journalist
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