Interview with Elizabeth Cline, Director of Advocacy and Policy at Remake
Luxiders Ambassador Olga Johnston - Antonova interviews Elizabeth Cline, Director of Advocacy and Policy at Remake, co-architect of #PayUp Campaign and PayUp Fashion 7 Action, the author of Overdress and The Conscious Closet.
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REMAKE FASHION ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT 2021
2021 Remake Fashion Accountability Report, based on consultations with 14 experts, scores 60 fashion companies across 6 key areas: Traceability; Wages and Wellbeing; Commercial Practices; Raw Materials; Environmental Justice and Climate Change; and, Governance, Diversity and Inclusion.
Here’s a sneak peek of their findings:
- It is about prices: Big box and discounters like Ross, TJX and Walmart got the lowest scores, faring worse than fast fashion, putting commercial practices sharply in focus. Small and medium-sized companies like Eileen Fisher, MUD Jeans, Nisolo, and Reformation did four times better than big companies, with some moving towards true circularity, away from fossil fuels, and focusing on raising wages.
- Circularity is mostly marketing, rather than a systems-change strategy: Linear and circular production are currently operating in parallel, with no company able to demonstrate that their total environmental impact is going down.
- Inequity is on the rise: Whether models, retailers or garment makers the industry has not made demonstrable progress toward living wages to fashion’s workers. With some inroads in recruitment of marginalized communities, there need to be more investments in retention strategies.
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