Higg Index

In a bid to map out the complex and rapidly evolving policy landscape and support members in their compliance work with their own legal and compliance teams, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has released a Higg Index Tools Analysis and Compliance Initiatives Summary Report, and put it in the public domain.

Management consultancy KPMG, which was tasked with reviewing the Higg Index suite of tools for the textiles and fashion industry, has recommended integrating the controversial Higg MSI with the Higg PM and focusing on enhancing data quality.

An acceptable definition for sustainable fashion, informed by standards and baselines, could empower consumers to make more informed decisions about their purchases. With Gen-Z labelled the sustainable generation, it is time for fashion to reform.

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition has rebranded its beleaguered sustainability intelligence platform Higg as Worldly and strengthened it further by tying up with certification company SGS to support industry’s need for validated data, and also come up with an industry-first solution to capture real-time data from factories across the supply chain.

The third-party expert review of the Higg MSI data and methodology, that came under fire last year, is expected this June, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has announced.

The Big Daddies in the textiles-apparel-footwear-fashion ecosystem are the hands behind some of the most followed sustainability benchmarks. The charge is that they have been using the cloak of opaqueness and secrecy and also the lack of credible data to greenwash themselves. texfash.com recaps the brouhaha.