Filippa K
Home Country: Sweden
“Elevated essentials and professional attire”
Filippa K is a Scandinavian brand that focuses on classic closet essentials from tank tops and sweatpants to hiking boots and coats. They create minimalist styles and approach fashion with a longevity perspective.
Filippa K
Home Country: Sweden
“Elevated essentials and professional attire”
Filippa K is a Scandinavian brand that focuses on classic closet essentials from tank tops and sweatpants to hiking boots and coats. They create minimalist styles and approach fashion with a longevity perspective.
Transparency
- Filippa K scored top points in this category.
- Filippa K shares a detailed list of factories that produce its items. Beyond their Tier 1 suppliers, this brand shares a list that includes names of factories at Tier 2 and Tier 3 levels as well.
- Filippa K has collaborated with TrustTrace to map their supply chain beyond Tier 1 and trace products back to the Tier 4 stage.
- Filippa K has launched the Fiber Traceability Initiative with the goal to achieve full traceability and transparency through the wool value chain, using QR codes to trace the wool back to its origin.
- Filippa K is a member of Fair Wear Foundation, that works with brands and industry influencers to support garment workers in realizing their rights to safe, dignified, properly paid employment.
- Filippa K requires all partners to adhere to a Code of Conduct based on the Fair Wear Foundation’s Code of Labor Practices that promotes human and labor rights.
Fair Labor
- Filippa K’s Fair Wear Foundation reports ensure that all first-tier facilities are regularly assessed for compliance with their Code of Conduct.
- Filippa K is cognizant of the most significant human and labor rights risks within their supply chain.
- Filippa K has a complaints mechanism is place for all factories via the Fair Wear Foundation, where workers can report any violations, which is followed by a remedy process and an improvement plan.
- Filippa K can improve their Fair Labor score by ensuring all workers involved in their supply chain make a living wage. Filippa K has created a living wage policy that will be implemented next year.
Sustainably Made
- Filippa K works to reduce their carbon emissions each year by measuring the carbon emissions of their Swedish stores and the fuel consumed by their global transports.
- To safeguard the surrounding environment, Filippa K suppliers are obligated to follow Filippa K Chemical Restriction List (RSL) and continuously phase out chemicals that are added to this list.
- Filippa K uses quality materials to ensure longevity of items as well as mono materials to increase the potential for textile-to-textile recycling.
- To encourage responsible consumption, Filippa K has introduced Filippa K Preowned which is an online marketplace in Sweden where one can sell and shop second hand Filippa K pieces.
- Filippa K uses packaging materials such as boxes (70% recycled content), shipping envelopes (responsibly sourced paper and mixed recycled content), and bags (responsibly sourced paper) for their e-commerce and retail operations. For transport packaging, the polybags they use to protect their garments during shipment are sourced by their suppliers, the majority of which use recycled content for the polybags.
- Filippa K can improve their Sustainably Made score by disclosing water consumption data from manufacturing their garments.
