The Industry We Want

Multi-stakeholder initiative tracking and facilitating industry-wide progress across the garment and footwear sector, working alongside Fair Wear, ETI, and Cascale to connect brands, suppliers, trade unions, and civil society. Relevant to fashion retail coverage as a cross-industry body shaping the standards that retail technology must implement. The initiative functions partly as a transparency index, benchmarking brand commitments and progress on living wages and working conditions against publicly verifiable evidence — creating accountability infrastructure that sits upstream of the technology vendors brands deploy for compliance. Because its outputs inform what "adequate due diligence" means in practice, it materially shapes the requirements against which supply chain AI tools are evaluated and procured.

First mentioned: April 2026