Sustainability progress report 2017 - 2020
Sourcing Sustainably
The Start Of All Creation
The highest quality of raw materials are at the center of Luxury creation. They inspire our Houses and bring life to our designers’ creative visions.
Tracing Materials Through Technology
Traceability is one of the crucial challenges to overcome in fashion’s complex global supply chains. Indirect sourcing is often routine practice, and the traditional business model set-up requires many sub-suppliers.
Innovating Supply Chains
To accelerate our sustainability strategy and meet our social and environmental goals, we knew we needed to relook at how we source raw materials and improve the processes.
Regenerative Farming And Retro Innovation
Not all innovation needs to be “high tech”. Solutions like regenerative farming can be the most effective when dealing with natural ecosystems.
Setting a Sustainable Gold Standard
At Kering we want to ensure the integrity of the gold our Houses purchase. So we created the Kering Ethical Gold Framework. The platform guarantees fully ethical, responsible and traceable gold at an accessible price.
Manufacturing In A New Way
The importance of developing new ways of manufacturing Luxury is driven by critical influences like sustainability.
Disrupting Traditions
- Our Houses have been pioneering metal-free tanning and as of the end of 2019, this eco process represented 24% of our Group collections. Metal-free tanning is an innovative technique for the Luxury fashion industry that removes the use of all metals traditionally used and it substantially decreases the use of water, energy, chemicals and pollutants during the tanning process. Thanks to this innovation, the environmental performance of tanning has considerably improved.
- We’ve launched a number of different pilot projects with the aim of inventing eco-dyeing processes. Here are a few of them: dry finishing which enables PFC free hydro-repellency, pilling and waterless dyeing, and testing with suppliers on silk, synthetics and regenerated cashmere. The use of micro-organisms is also a promising lead for more sustainable and economical dyeing solutions.
Enabling Sustainable Design
Empowering creators with next-generation materials & a library for sustainable design.
Alternative Materials For The Future
Our EP&L guides us to prioritize innovative solutions, so that we can achieve the greatest positive impact.
Upcycling & Regenerating
As the Luxury and fashion industries move to become more sustainable, both upcycling and regeneration are not only popular trends, but also essential ones.
Seeking Next-Generation Innovation: Kering And Start-Ups
Whether it’s with sourcing, supply chains or circularity, you can see how our sustainability strategy is paying off thanks to technological innovation.
When It Comes To Innovation, We Want To Help Lead Our Industry Forward
Kering is proud to be a pioneer in our sector, working with start-ups and Fashion for Good’s Accelerator program, incubated with the support of the Silicon Valley based investor, Plug & Play.
Looking At Our Challenges Through A Different Lens
As we constantly search for next generation innovation and disruptions, we think it’s possible to hack for the right reasons.
