Asket specializes in long lasting men’s Wardrobe essentials. Casual, everyday garments inspired by the search for the perfect t-shirt, Asket focuses on quality over quantity. With the pursuit of creating less and existing forever by improving existing garments and introducing only a few pieces each year, Asket puts lots of thought into your wardrobe, effortlessly. Shop their most popular pieces: The T-Shirt, The Oxford Shirt, The Merino Sweater and The Chino.
Asket
Asket specializes in long lasting men’s Wardrobe essentials. Casual, everyday garments inspired by the search for the perfect t-shirt, Asket focuses on quality over quantity. With the pursuit of creating less and existing forever by improving existing garments and introducing only a few pieces each year, Asket puts lots of thought into your wardrobe, effortlessly. Shop their most popular pieces: The T-Shirt, The Oxford Shirt, The Merino Sweater and The Chino.
Transparency
- Asket has a strong commitment to transparency and traces every facility involved in the production of their garments.
- They have a recorded geographic footprint of all of their facilities. On their website they have a “meet the makers” page where you can scroll through an extensive report of their manufacturing facilities, mills, and farms.
- Asket has traceability of approximately 89% of their supply chain and is yet to trace the dye, chemicals and stones used in dyeing and washing processes.
- In order to obtain traceability Asket travels and visits facilities to collect questionnaires and certificates of origin.
- Asket does not outsource tasks to another subcontractors that are unknown or unsafe.
Fair Labor
- The company assesses all their facilities most of which are located in Portugal and Italy.
- Fair Labor can be improved by providing and disclosing benefits and well-being programs to their makers within all of their factories.
- Asket could be more transparent about the wages paid to their workers and if they actually constitute living wages.
Sustainably Made
- Asket sends each customer an “impact receipt” after they make a purchase which details the exact CO2 emissions, water, and energy consumption used in the process of producing each garment.
- Asket is making progress toward investing in low carbon manufacturing processes and exclusively uses renewable energy in all of their stores.
- The company has a recycling program where customers can hand in old Asket garments that can be refurbished, recycled, or re-sold by the company.
- The company is trying to reduce landfill waste through packaging and all their European standard shipping methods are land-based, of which a large share of last-mile legs are by electric cars or bicycles.
- Asket uses GOTS certified cotton while their wool & synthetic fibers are GRS certified.
