Description/achievement of initiative
Relevé Fashion is a premier retail platform for ethical and sustainable brands for social impact. We believe in beautiful products that conserve the beauty that surrounds us, so that looking good doesn't come at the expense of doing good. We collaborate with designers, innovators, philanthropists and individuals who share our principles and social objectives - coming together to make a genuine style statement for positive fashion and conscious lifestyles. 10% of every purchase goes to our customers' chosen non-profit/s. We're proud to be the first Eco-Age Brandmark boutique and partner of the Conscious Fashion Campaign.
Implementation methodologies
Relevé Fashion ensures the implementation of key methodologies by thoroughly reviewing all partner brands and their products that are sold on our retail platform through evaluation processes including our holistic sustainability and ethical declaration. Whenever possible, we meet with and personally visit the offices and studios of our partners. We ensure full transparency with our customers and extended community by publishing all information and making them easily accessible on our platform. Our customers can filter products based on the following brand commitments: Animal-friendly and Cruelty-free, Vegan, Fur-free, Design and Material Innovation, Handcrafted / Artisanal, and Charitable. 10% of every purchase is donated to our non-profit partners. Upon checkout, our customers can select the non-profit they'd like to direct their donation to. This is then reflected when the order receipt is sent to their email addresses.
Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer
Relevé Fashion provides full transparency of the ethical and sustainable practices, and brand commitments represented by Relevé Beacons, ensured by our partners. We also provide detailed product descriptions of each item on our platform. These details are not only shared on our retail site but on every social media platform and throughout our marketing initiatives.\r\n\r\nEvery product page has a Cost per Wear™ feature that calculates an ideal minimum number of wears based on reasonable considerations of factors, including product category, quality, wardrobe seasons, customer lifestyles and trends, among others. The Cost per Wear™ is the item's current selling price divided by the ideal minimum number of times we suggest you wear or use the item, to make it a truly worthwhile purchase. 10% of every purchase is donated to our non-profit partners, which is indicated on the Cause per Wear feature also on every product page. Upon checkout, our customers can select the non-profit they'd like to direct their donation to. This is then reflected when the order receipt is sent to their email addresses.
Coordination mechanisms/governance structure
Each of our partner brands signs an extensive holistic sustainable and ethical declaration before they are launched on Relevé Fashion, ensuring that all products we feature adhere to ethical and sustainable practices. Along with this, each of our brands indicates the Sustainable Development Goals that they uphold. All of this is then published on every brand profile page on our site to provide full transparency for our customers and extended community.\r\n\r\nAll of our partners have initiatives in place towards environmental protection, ethical production, as well as personal and social well-being. These are represented by our Relevé Beacons, which we feature on every product page for continued transparency at the point of purchase.
Partner(s)
Sustainable Brand Partners: Abury, Appareal, Aqua dos Açores, Bea Valdes, Beatriz, Harem London, Heidi London, Joanique, Look Mate, Michi, Muzungu Sisters, Okapi, Oramai London, Pama London, Piopio, Port Zienna, Sana Jardin, SixtyNinety, Sofia Latif, Soli & Sun, Wibes, Wild Saint London\r\nNon-profit Partners: Big Change, Nest, Covid-19 Relief Efforts
Progress reports
Goal 1
1.a - Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions
Goal 3
3.9 - By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination
3.d - Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks
Goal 4
4.4 - By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
4.6 - By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy
4.7 - By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development
Goal 5
5.1 - End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
5.5 - Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
5.a - Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
Goal 6
6.3 - By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally
Goal 7
7.2 - By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix
Goal 8
8.2 - Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors
8.4 - Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, with developed countries taking the lead
8.5 - By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value
8.6 - By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training
8.7 - Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms
8.8 - Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment
Goal 9
9.4 - By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities
9.c - Significantly increase access to information and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in least developed countries by 2020
Goal 10
10.2 - By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
10.4 - Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality
Goal 11
11.4 - Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage
Goal 12
12.1 - Implement the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries
12.2 - By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
12.5 - By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
12.6 - Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle
12.8 - By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature
Goal 13
13.3 - Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
Goal 14
14.1 - By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
14.2 - By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
Goal 15
15.2 - By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally
15.5 - Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species
15.c - Enhance global support for efforts to combat poaching and trafficking of protected species, including by increasing the capacity of local communities to pursue sustainable livelihood opportunities
Goal 16
16.6 - Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels
16.b - Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development
Goal 17
17.11 - Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020
17.16 - Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
17.17 - Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships
Data, monitoring and accountability
12/2024
