The Remake Accountability Report has entered its fourth year, calling on behemoth fashion labels across the world to bring transparency to their working practices – from where and how garments are made, where materials are sourced from, to the salaries they pay their workers, right from CEO level down to the people actually sewing the clothes. Each year, the results are pretty damning, with countless brands refusing to reveal their data, and many others sharing theirs, only to find themselves languishing at the bottom of the chart due to questionable practices.
2024 saw the US-based non-profit investigate a total of 52 brands as part of the as-yet unreleased report, attributing them each anywhere between 0 and 150 points based on social and environmental categories. Unsurprisingly, mega fast fashion brands Missguided, Fashion Nova, and the snowballing Temu platform failed to amass any points, and sank straight to the bottom of the fashion barrel. Also languishing at the bottom was SKIMS, with Kim Kardashian’s beloved shapewear line scoring zero points. Though this could mean none of the above labels agreed to share their data with Remake rather than dodgy practices, it does beg the question: why the lack of transparency if you’ve nothing to hide?
Elsewhere, Shein managed to scrape six points this year, while Amazon, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Macy’s all scored below ten points. In the top positions were Everlane, which amassed 40 points out of 150, Puma with 36, Reformation with 34, and Ralph Lauren with 30. H&M was also a surprisingly high scorer with 37 points. Of the 52 companies included, 28 have implemented ‘supplier codes of conduct’, which will investigate how the factories they work with comply with labour and health and safety laws, as well as environmental standards.
More than just calling out the brands that are reluctant to offer a transparent view of their inner-workings, Remake highlights them to encourage them to make positive, meaningful changes to how they do things, and offers them support in doing so should they ask for help.
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Dazed has reached out to SKIMS for comment but at the time of publishing has not received a response.