4. Ethical Production (Level 2 & 3)
Upholding Ethical Standards: In your design process, outline the steps you take to uphold ethical standards when outsourcing production. How do you ensure ethical practices align with your design ethos?
Code of Conduct’s Impact: Elaborate on the role of a Code of Conduct in ensuring ethical production for sustainable fashion. Describe the implementation and maintenance of such a code within your fashion design practices.
Worker Rights and Fair Labor Practices: Share specific strategies and examples detailing how you prioritise and protect worker rights, ensuring fair labour practices in your fashion design projects. How can fashion be a force for fair employment?
Cruelty-Free Design: In incorporating alternative materials and ethical production practices for animal welfare into your design process, elaborate on fostering transparency, cruelty-free design, and consumer awareness. Explore regenerative practices and provide examples of innovative alternatives that prioritise minimal environmental impact.
Supply Chain Accountability(Level 3): Discuss the measures you implement to maintain accountability throughout the supply chain, especially when collaborating with external suppliers or manufacturers. How do these measures align with your commitment to ethical production?
Former art director at Hugo Boss, Bruno Pieters, made a pioneering step in 2012 by launching Honest By, presented as the world's first 100 per cent transparent company. Pieters publishes everything from mark-ups and the supplier details of each element, down to the thread used to sew the garments.
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