#luxury companies

[bhospicefashion]

Sandro

The ready-to-wear-brand Sandro, known for their casual but elegant streetwear has acknowledge its responsibility towards the environment. Despite not being sustainable yet, the brand has come up with a specific plan. Sandro aims to make by 2025 over 60% of their products eco-responsible. By the end of this year, 80% of their suppliers will be certified. Besides, since 2019 they reduced 20% of their clothing pieces. Furthermore, they permanently removed the usage of animal fur and exotic leathers from their collections. 

Sandro Autumn Winter 2022-2023 Ready-to-Wear

Autumn Winter 2022-2023 Ready-to-Wear

Sandro- Spring Summer 2022 Ready-to-Wear

Spring Summer 2022 Ready-to-Wear

PRODUCTION PROCESS

Production takes place at 110 partner sites in 30 countries, including Portugal, France, Italy, Turkey, China, Serbia, Bulgaria and Tunisia. When selecting partners, we use a process based primarily on the search for technical—sometimes rare—expertise, as well as social and environmental audits.

In addition to the suppliers with whom we've fostered long-standing partnerships, we are constantly looking to strengthen the traceability of our collections to reveal every step of our production chain, right back to the raw material.

Our daily concern is also to produce in a better way, i.e. produce as close as possible to what we need. This is why we've implemented a new set of demand-planning tools in order to better adjust the volumes produced, increase distribution agility and therefore limit the amount of leftover stock at the end of a season.

SUPPLIER AUDITING

The social and environmental compliance policy for our suppliers is based on the following measures:

• All suppliers must sign a code of conduct outlining our requirements in detail.

• When referencing a new supplier, social audits or the social certifications of their manufacturing sites must be collected and reviewed.

• Social and environmental audits must be carried out, whether conducted by Sandro or requested by other companies according to the standards recognised by the SMCP Group (BSCI, Sedex, WRAP, WCA, and the SA8000 for social; ISO 14001, bluesign, STeP by OEKO-TEX for environmental).

THEIR MATERIALS AND HOW TO CARE FOR THEM

The starting point for creating our clothing and accessories is the selection and production of the raw materials used to make them. Upstream of our value chains is also where the most significant part of our sector's environmental impact lies.

We take the greatest care in selecting the materials we use. Our aim is to offer our customers high quality materials—like cotton, linen, viscose, silk, wool and cashmere—which are produced and processed using methods with a reduced environmental impact.

Keen to improve the environmental footprint of the materials making up our creations, we are now focusing our efforts on sourcing the materials we use most in our collections sustainably: organic cotton, Responsible Wool Standard (RWS) certified wool, Leather Working Group (LWG) certified leather and recycled polyester. What's more, 100% of our jeans are treated using a process that uses 95% less water than traditional treatments.

These materials represent a real challenge from an economic and supply perspective. Only available in limited quantities, we do everything we can to ensure their availability by strengthening the partnerships we have with our suppliers.

in 2022: 52% of our men's and women's collections are made using materials and/or manufacturing processes with a lower environmental impact.

2025: 80% of our men's and women's collections will be made using materials and/or manufacturing processes with a lower environmental impact.

THEIR DEFINITION OF A MORE SUSTAINABLE PIECE

At Sandro, a product is considered more sustainable if it respects one or more of these criteria:

- at least 50% of its main material is organic, recycled or meets criteria for preserving ecosystems (forests, pastureland, etc.).

- its denim is treated using eim (environmental impact measuring) technology, saving 95% of water compared to traditional treatment techniques

- the tannery, for leather items, conforms to the best industry practices in terms of water consumption, energy consumption and the use of chemicals.

[mensfactory]

1970 Lamborghini Miura P400 S

The color is Luci del Bosco Metallizzato (Light of the Woods) with Gobi (beige) vinyl upholstery and cloth seat inserts. It’s hard to envision a more appropriate—and appealing—color combination in the era of gold shag carpet and Harvest Gold appliances.

A total of 338 examples of the Miura P400 S were built between 1968 and 1971.

Mike Maez, courtesy of Gooding & Company.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

putting my prediction on record now that the coming decade is going to see the rise of viral-marketed fancy at-home water filtration systems, driving and driven by a drastic reduction in the quality of U.S. tap water (given that we are in a 'replacement era' where our current infrastructure is reaching the end of its lifespan--but isn't being replaced). also guessing that by the 2030s access to drinkable tap water will be a mainstream class issue, with low-income & unstably housed people increasingly forced to rely on expensive bottled water when they can't afford the up-front cost of at-home filtration--and with this being portrayed in media as a "moral failing" and short-sighted "choice," rather than a basic failure of our political & economic systems. really hope i'm just being alarmist, but plenty of this already happens in other countries, and the U.S. is in a state of decline, so. here's praying this post ages into irrelevance. timestamped April 2023

[ultimatepad]

"GARAGE," Shenzhen, Guangdong, China,

DDDD Creative Company

[becomingher-era]

Wishing a successful business to all entrepreneurs out there 💕

If you want to encourage me, I’m selling raw indian hair. AUTHENTIC RAW INDIAN HAIR STRAIGHT FROM INDIA 🇮🇳!!!

Luxury hair extensions ✨

IG: @candalbeauty | www.candalbeauty.com

Let’s encourage each other!

[swan2swan]

Reminder that Brooklynn and Soyona absolutely had a breakfast together in Dubai.

[rotzaprachim]

public transport is so great until someone decides to be REALLLLY annoying

[tired-fandom-ndn]

Women don't shave because men want them to look like children, they shave because razor companies wanted to make more money and spent decades framing body hair as unhygienic and shaving as luxurious and mature, something that women with the time to spend doing some pointless cosmetic thing and the money to spend on razors and shaving creams and all their other products do because they're rich and beautiful and important.

That's it. It's capitalist bullshit dependant on misogyny and on creating new misogynistic beauty standards and kids have absolutely nothing to do with it.

[fishareglorious]

thinking about the time i posted a joke about tooth fairy and the fact she owns a subaru (well regarded as the car brand for lesbians), and somehow the post broke containment and car nerds found it

[lleclercism]

kinda obsessed with the range of his resume

[stone-cold-groove]

Seward Trunk & Bag Company 1937-1938 catalog.

[mensfactory]

1972 Ferrari 365 GTS4 “Daytona Spider”

Photo : Mathieu Heurtault,

Courtesy of Gooding & Company

[uncanny-tranny]

It's so hard to fully encapsulate my rage at just how much people buy into the idea that capitalism will uniquely incentivize people to innovate when... it isn't about innovation. It is about profit, and those two things are not mutually inclusive ideas.

Maybe I'm getting too old, but all of these "new innovative" ideas were shit we had in ye olden days - movies, renting, delivery services, taxis, housing - we had all of those services, except now, it's exorbitantly more expensive because of price gouging.

You aren't witnessing innovation; you are witnessing the modern invention of the wheel behind a ludicrous pay wall.

[britsyankswheels24]

🇺🇲 On June 25, 1956, the last Packard rolled off the production line in Detroit.

🚘 Once a leading luxury car manufacturer, the Packard Motor Car Company was renowned for its square bodies and hand-finished expertise. However, after World War I, General Motors' entry into the luxury market with Cadillac began to erode Packard's market share.

🏭 In a bid to survive, Packard merged with the Studebaker Corporation in the 1950s. Despite these efforts, the struggle continued. James Nance, president of Studebaker-Packard at the time, decided to cease Packard manufacturing in Detroit.

💔 Studebaker-Packard continued to produce cars in Indiana until 1958, but the last “true Packard” is considered to be the one made in Detroit.

[becomingher-era]

Monday morning: To-Do List

Waking up at 7:00 AM

Work my 9-5

In between breaks, study for school

Go to my MBA class at 6:30 PM

Post in social media (my goal is 10K on Instagram)

Ship some hair orders for my hair company (candalbeauty)

Prepare my day for tomorrow

What about you?

IG: candicecynthia.t

[kogiopsis]

Man, not to sound like an old fogey but I remember when I could go to a store and, with a reasonable understanding of the type of items they carried, find and pick out something I needed THAT DAY. Without needing to check online to see if they had something in stock, and without needing to comb through a billion different listings for dropshipped crap because they've turned their website into a 'marketplace'.

Like, there are many more important aspects of enshittification but one I would like to personally complain about is just... physical stores don't have as much variety in their inventory anymore. I can't actually go to Staples and find a desk drawer organizer because do you know how many options my local Staples actually has physically there? Two. And maybe it's the hazy glow of childhood but I feel like??? there used to be more??? There used to be more options available, conveniently, where I could pick them up and gauge the quality of their construction and then simply purchase them and leave, task accomplished.

Next-day shipping this, prime that, I don't care - I will be my OWN delivery driver if you will just! stock! the things in the damn stores!