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.