#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.

[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

[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.

[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!

[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.

[lleclercism]

kinda obsessed with the range of his resume

[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

[stone-cold-groove]

Seward Trunk & Bag Company 1937-1938 catalog.

[awkward-teabag]

Love (cannot emphasis how much sarcasm there is in that word) that an official Canadian government response to high cellphone rates is to switch carriers.

Switch it to what? We basically have three companies since one was allowed to eat the forth (with the government saying it wasn't anti-competition and the company eating the other pinky promising they wouldn't jack rates up). Even the smaller companies have to rent infrastructure from the Big Three so there's only so much they can do if that rent costs an arm and a leg.

And that's not touching on how many "small companies" are actually just subsidiaries of the Big Three. You may save $5 but you're still with Telus/Rogers/Bell.

Or that the actual small companies tend to have shit coverage because they don't have the infrastructure available to them and are prevented from getting it. Or their traffic is throttled in favour of the Big Three's customers. Or both.

Or that they're extremely regional thus aren't an option for a huge chunk of Canada's population.

We have no true options and the government has shown time and again that they're fine with monopolies, in multiple industries, and don't care when said monopolies jack up prices to make shareholders and the c-suite more money at the expense of everyone else. At most there will be a verbal slap on the wrist and a giftcard for $25 that people have to register for, for a decade and a half of price gouging.

It's not talked a whole lot about outside the country from what I've seen and heard but Canada is a country of monopolies. A handful of companies own nearly everything, every province has a family or two that owns a hell of a lot (Nova Scotia is basically owned by one family at this point), and our government ignores it. Even the branch that is supposed to be against monopolies is fine with mergers and takeovers in most cases.

Because, you know, the company said it totally wouldn't use consumers' lack of options to increase prices.

[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.

[television-overload]

I can't wait to see Tony and Ziva's Paris apartment. Is it inexplicably fancy? Like all those picturesque pictures you see of a balcony overlooking the Eiffel Tower? Do they have shiny white crown molding everywhere? Or is it small and cramped, but all Tony could find on short notice? Is it run down? Perched above a small cafe?

[mensfactory]

1972 Ferrari 365 GTS4 “Daytona Spider”

Photo : Mathieu Heurtault,

Courtesy of Gooding & Company

[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

[poisoned-pearls]

Does Nami know about her parents' overblots?

YES!! Oh my god I am such a nerd abt this and stuff related to it- AUGH okay!!

So she knows Azul overblotted, and the very basics of it. His didn’t last as long so he doesn’t have as many long term effects. But details?? Ehh not so much. Not that it’s a secret, it’s just that Azul is a tad bit embarrassed abt it and she’s just not that curious abt it. She knows he overblotted, okay? So did two of the other adults in her life. And Azul’s business partner did (Idia, she ran into him somewhat often). Like it’s just something that happens. Not GOOD, but you know-

She knows a LOT more abt Jamil’s tho. She is quite literally banned from traveling to the sands by herself, (bc they’re scared asims will kidnap her and try to beat the loopholes they used to get Jamil out- it’s why she has the last name Ashengrotto) and she has been told as to why she never sees her grandpa, and why she barely sees her grandma on that side. Jamil also has a lot more long term effects from it. She just knows that (most) of the asims aren’t good people, and that she has to be careful around them, bc even if they don’t try to take her, they may treat her as less than.

What both of them have been aware of though is that she is FAR more at risk bc of their overblots.

having a parent that overblotted puts you at more risk to have an overblot, and to be weaker to it’s aftereffects, but TWO? They were warned by a lot of doctors about it- it’s why both of them avoided what made them overblot

She was spoiled a lot because Jamil wanted to make sure she knew she was worth just as much as everyone else, if not more, just to make sure no one ever treated her as less than.

Azul specifically made sure he built her confidence to an UNSHAKABLE level so no one would ever be mean to her, (also let her bite. She was a terror to people in school)

but she doesn’t overblot bc of that- her overblot is much more similar to riddle’s! She overblots because she admires her dads so much, but feels like nothing she does will ever live up to what they did.

[bogkeep]

if i had a nickel for every heavyweight, sturdy and embroidered No Expenses Spared fancy totebag that's been gifted to me by a watch-related company visiting our school and handing out goodie bags, i would have two nickels. i don't have any nickels though. only totebags