Fashion Revolution was formed just after the tragic Rana Plaza factory collapse in 2013 in response to the incident and the lack of knowledge around the question: “who made my clothes?”
The question sparked the beginnings of a global movement for transparency, catalysing conversations and public education around the way clothes are made to demand justice and dignity for the people who “make our clothes”, Just Style writes.
In 2017, to increase pressure on the industry and give citizens the data they need to power their activism, the Global Fashion Transparency Index in 2017 was launched to measure what big fashion is telling us about their human rights and environmental practices because greater transparency is the starting point to accountability and systemic change.
“A decade later, the Fashion Revolution movement is now strong across 80 countries globally, united by a common vision of a global fashion industry that conserves and restores the environment and values people over growth and profit,” the organisation says.
Since its beginnings in 2017, through the Fashion Transparency Index (FTI) Fashion Revolution has seen 86% of major fashion brands that have been analysed continuously increase their levels of disclosure with an average of 15 percentage points, with some of these brands increasing their transparency by up to 54%. From just 100 brands initially, today the FTI has expanded to encompass 250 of the world’s largest brands, with 61% actively engaged. /BGNES