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We celebrate the brands that have improved their public disclosures and moved up a level on our ratings scale.
Which fashion brands are improving their practices?
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Last month, 29 brands’ ratings were reviewed by our analysts, but just three improved beyond our middling “It’s a Start” score. And just like in our previous roundups of improved brands, they were all small businesses. Once again, we see that large brands who have the power and influence to effect huge changes in sustainable fashion simply aren’t working hard enough to do so. Scroll on to discover more about the brands that are making efforts to reduce their impact on people, the planet, and animals.
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For this report, we looked at the data for the 29 brands our analysts re-rated in September 2024, and highlighted the ones whose overall scores increased enough for them to go up a level on our rating scale, for example, from “It’s a Start” to “Good”, or from “Good” to “Great”. We haven’t focused on brands whose ratings increased but were still bad overall, for example, from “We Avoid” to “Not Good Enough”. The idea is to encourage brands that are actively making progress and reducing their impacts.
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