Atelier Emé

How sustainable is Atelier Emé?

This screening has been done by Fairify on March 31^st 2020

Ate­lier Emé is a wed­ding dress brand owned by Cal­ze­do­nia Group, an Ita­lian com­pa­ny that owns five Ita­lian brands. The com­pa­ny offers very limi­ted trans­pa­ren­cy. There is a sus­tai­na­bi­li­ty report for the mother com­pa­ny in gene­ral, but it is in Ita­lian and does not reveal much rele­vant data about the com­pa­ny. The infor­ma­tion pro­vi­ded is insuf­fi­cient and pro­vides no evi­dence of actual efforts for impro­ve­ment. Cal­ze­do­nia has signed the Fashion Pact, which is a step in the right direc­tion towards cli­mate action. But with cur­rent­ly no spe­ci­fic tar­gets or mea­sures in place or any infor­ma­tion about wor­kers and ani­mal rights, we wor­ry about the actual mecha­nics of the com­pa­ny.

When a brand offers no infor­ma­tion about its ope­ra­tions, there are seve­ral risks you take as a consu­mer. For example, the cli­mate impact of that par­ti­cu­lar brand or pro­duct can be much higher com­pa­red to indus­try peers. The com­pa­ny might use cer­tain harm­ful che­mi­cals or there might be ani­mals or humans har­med for the manu­fac­tu­ring of the pro­duct. For these rea­sons, we believe that you should be aware of how pro­ducts are pro­du­ced and how a com­pa­ny as a whole ope­rates in regard to our pillars. Cal­ze­do­nia Group does not seem to share the same opi­nion at the moment. Hope­ful­ly this will be dif­ferent in the future. When there are no reports, you are at risk of sup­por­ting some or more of the harm­ful condi­tions men­tio­ned above.