Sharing is caring at Kering
21/06/2019
At the time of the announcement, Mr Pinault told the publication that sustainability is a major aspect of his vision for the group. He said the luxury industry has “a special responsibility” to improve the sustainability of the fashion sector as a whole.
He gave two reasons for this, saying first that luxury brands can set an example that other fashion companies will want to follow. “Our designers are opinion leaders,” he said. “We are the best placed to lead the way and inspire the others to change.”
Secondly, he said luxury brands are in a good position to invest money in sustainability initiatives. The luxury industry has the financial means to invest in the search for new solutions and has a duty to share its findings about those new solutions with the entire fashion industry, Mr Pinault said. He added: “This is what we did with innovative processes that we have implemented, such as metal-free tanning.”
In 2014, Mr Pinault said Gucci, which is one of Kering’s brands, had pioneered a method to remove all heavy metals from the tanning process. In 2016, the group announced it had begun using the same processes at the France Croco tannery in France, which has been part of the Kering group since 2013.
Mr Pinault’s promise was that the group would share information about what Gucci had done with the whole of the leather industry. World Leather hopes to bring details in a follow-up article of how extensively it has been able to share the breakthroughs Gucci achieved with other brands and other leather manufacturers.
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