{"id":2008563,"date":"2013-02-20T12:50:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T11:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/2013\/02\/20\/greenpeace-ranks-and-challenges-haute-couture-brands\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T21:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:34:38","slug":"greenpeace-ranks-and-challenges-haute-couture-brands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2013\/02\/20\/greenpeace-ranks-and-challenges-haute-couture-brands\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace ranks and challenges haute couture brands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greenpeace ranks and challenges haute couture brands<\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace yesterday published a ranking <a href=\"http:\/\/fr.thefashionduel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/fr.thefashionduel.com\/<\/a> of major haute couture and luxury brands according to their environmental policies, and in particular their impact on chemical pollution and tropical deforestation.<\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace is calling on all its supporters worldwide to step up the pressure on these major luxury brands to make a public commitment and take concrete action to exclude hazardous chemical substances, and raw materials from deforestation, from their production chains.<br \/>\n <iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dc4LMg7toIE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Valentino tops the list, Chanel and Herm\u00e8s bottom out<br \/>\nItalian brand Valentino tops the list for best policies and commitments, while six brands, including Chanel and Herm\u00e8s, come bottom of the list for not taking environmental issues seriously enough.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Fashion Duel&#8221; ranking identifies and evaluates Italian and French luxury brands in a study of three aspects of their supply chains: leather, packaging paper and water pollution. The brands were approached last November, and ranked according to the transparency of their supply chain and their willingness to make credible commitments to toxic-free, deforestation-free fashion.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Capture-d%E2%80%99%C3%A9cran-2013-02-20-%C3%A0-11.48.39.png\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Capture-d%E2%80%99%C3%A9cran-2013-02-20-%C3%A0-11.48.39-188x300.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2013-02-20 at 11.48.39\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-58382\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nLuxury brand Valentino has just pledged to exclude the use of any toxic chemicals and to adopt a &#8220;zero deforestation&#8221; sourcing policy for its products. Conversely, Chanel, Herm\u00e8s, Prada and Dolce&amp;Gabbana, for example, have refused to provide the information requested by Greenpeace or to make any commitment to improve their practices.<\/p>\n<p>Deforestation, toxic products: the environmental impact of the luxury sector<br \/>\nThe textile industry is one of the main sources of water pollution in countries such as China and Mexico; Greenpeace investigations have revealed that factories release hazardous products, including endocrine disruptors, into the environment. At the same time, tropical forests are being clear-cut to make packaging, while the Amazon rainforest is being destroyed to make pasture for cattle breeding, which provides the leather for shoes, bags and belts.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since the launch of the &#8220;Detox&#8221; campaign in 2011, 16 major brands have already committed to a &#8220;detox&#8221; cure, i.e. to exclude the use of hazardous chemicals throughout their production chain,&#8221; explains J\u00e9r\u00f4me Frignet. If high-volume brands have taken the plunge, it&#8217;s hard to understand why the luxury sector, with its very high margins on every item sold, couldn&#8217;t do the same. Valentino has just set an example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenpeace ranks and challenges haute couture brands Greenpeace yesterday published a ranking http:\/\/fr.thefashionduel.com\/ of major haute couture and luxury brands according to their environmental policies, and in particular their impact&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2008565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52709],"tags":[61886],"class_list":["post-2008563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thefashion","tag-greenpeace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}