Aritzia

Jun 13, 2022

Aritzia is a Canadian fashion retailer founded in 1984 in Vancouver, British Columbia, by Brian Hill. The multinational clothing-retail company creates fast fashion for young women.

Aritzia makes clothing, accessories, shoes, and underwear and specializes in lifestyle apparel like jackets, coats, sweaters, and dresses. It owns many other brands such as Wilfred, Super World, Auxiliary, Sunday Best, Babaton, Talula, and Tna.

Aritzia creates everyday luxury and operates more than 100 stores throughout North America. It focuses on good design, quality materials, and timeless style.

Aritzia is a vertically integrated design house with an innovative global platform. It offers extensive collections for every function and individual aesthetic while keeping the well-being of its people and planet in mind.

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Sustainability Rating: 4/10

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Category: Clothing, accessories, shoes

For: Women

Type: Basics, denim, knitwear, activewear, underwear, loungewear, outerwear, flip flops

Style: Casual

Quality: Low

Price: $

Sizes: 2XS-2XL, 0-14 (US), 2-16 (UK), 32-44 (EU), 4-18 (AU)

Fabrics: Cotton, linen, hemp, ramie, lyocell, modal, viscose, cupro, acetate, polyester, nylon, spandex, polyethylene, acrylic, neoprene, polyurethane, rubber, leather, wool, silk, down

100% Organic: No

100% Vegan: No

Ethical & Fair: No

Recycling: Yes

Producing countries: Canada, Cambodia, Colombia, China, Italy, India, Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Vietnam

Certifications: GOTS, OCS, FSC

Sustainability Practices

Aritzia takes wide-ranging measures in its supply chain to improve environmental and social performance. It wants to extend its sustainability programs and accelerate progress across its value chain.

Aritzia only uses a small proportion of organic materials such as organic cotton and hemp or recycled materials such as recycled polyester and regenerated nylon.

Most of the fabrics it uses are either natural without relevant certifications, such as regular cotton or linen, or synthetic petroleum-based fibers such as polyester, nylon, acrylic, and more.

Aritzia also uses a little amount of semi-synthetic fibers or regenerated cellulosic fabrics such as Tencel lyocell, modal, acetate, and viscose.

Tencel is an eco-friendly fiber made with wood pulp from certified sustainable forests. But only a small proportion of the materials used by Aritzia are environmentally friendly and sustainable.

Aritzia doesn't publish a list of its manufacturers and processing facilities on its corporate website. It aims to work with best-in-class finished goods and fabric suppliers.

The 2021 Fashion Transparency Index gave Aritzia a score of 23% based on how much the group discloses about its social and environmental policies, practices, and impacts.

Aritzia manufactures its clothes in Turkey and many other East Asian countries where human rights and labor law violations still happen every day.

Aritzia doesn't show any labor certification standard that would ensure good working conditions, decent living wages, health, safety, and other human rights for workers in its supply chain.

Aritzia has a code of conduct that applies to all its suppliers and subcontractors based on the regulations set by the International Labor Organization (ILO).

Aritzia assesses compliance with its Code of Conduct using local and independent specialists. It only conducts announced audits to build relationships and trust based on transparency.

Aritzia doesn't use any exotic animal skin, hair, fur, or angora. But it uses leather, wool, silk, and down feathers to manufacture many of its clothing pieces.

These animal-derived materials are cruel and unethical. They also harm the environment by producing greenhouse gases and waste. More sustainable alternatives exist.

Sustainability Goals

Aritzia aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, waste, water, chemicals, and energy consumption in all its operations. It wants to take a circular approach in design, use, and end of the lifecycle.

However, Aritzia doesn't have clear sustainability goals, science-based targets, or timelines to improve in the future.

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