Product Obsessed

RESPONSIBLE SUPPLY CHAIN

Our goal is to deliver distinct, innovative, premium, best-in-class products and services that generate beautiful solutions, exude confidence and joy and elevate social and environmental stewardship.

As a leading women’s retailer, we are active participants in the complex global fashion supply chain. As we source raw materials, develop fabrics, produce garments in our value chain, and distribute finished products through our retail and wholesale channels, we strive to be responsible stewards and partners by promoting practices that are environmentally, socially and ethically conscious.

With a Passion for FASHION in our DNA, we are identifying ways to improve our environmental footprint and generate positive, beneficial impacts within our supply chain. By doing so, we hope to ensure our customers can be confident about the global impact of their purchases and along the way create greater brand enthusiasm.

Our approach to responsible material sourcing focuses on the identification and introduction of raw materials that embody ethical practices in terms of the welfare of the people producing them, stewardship of the physical environment or livestock from which it is harvested and the overall environmental impact. We consider the location from which the materials are acquired, the procurement practices involved and the types of fibers used in the fabric creations. We also take a hazard-based approach to our chemicals management, which emphasizes awareness, minimization and/or avoidance of substances with potential adverse impacts.

The practices of our partners are a true reflection of how we are contributing to a more sustainable and socially conscious supply chain.

We engage with suppliers who share our commitment to minimizing our environmental impacts and ensuring everyone has the right to safe, healthy and humane working conditions. We hold our partners accountable to our Global Vendor Code of Conduct and Human Rights Policy and have robust processes in place to assure compliance by our Tier 1 vendors through auditing, measuring performance and monitoring improvements. All of this is to foster a culture of transparency and continuous improvement in social, labor and environmental practices.

To learn more about our Consume Less and Improve Reporting goals and progress visit our Impact Report.

PRODUCT CIRCULARITY

We are a partner and ally to all those investing in a more sustainable fashion future, one focused on longevity.

Our merchandise–the items that bring CONFIDENCE and JOY–are a key focal point of our circularity strategy. From the beginning stages of our garments’ life, we are thinking about the characteristics of the fabrics and the resources used in their production. As the garments near the end of their use-value, we are partnering with organizations to create their next life.

Our Soma Bra Donation and Bra Recycling programs have been around since 2010. New and gently loved bras are upcycled to women experiencing homelessness, impoverishment or distress through our partner I SUPPORT THE GIRLS. For bras past their usable life, we donate them to The Bra Recyclers who repurpose the materials and components, delaying their entry into landfills.

Each of our brands has its own unique look and feel, and the fabrics we select often set us apart from our competitors. They can be natural or synthetic, but no matter the type, we have taken strides to identify opportunities with circularity in mind.

We have been increasing the use of Mindful Fabrics in styles across our brands.

Recycled yarns are being introduced in certain selections of our polyester and nylon fabrics. Natural fibers, including organic cotton and linens, are inherently circular with the durability of being reused and recycled and decomposed at the end of life. We also select Mindful Fabrics that embed circularity in their production.

To learn more about our Innovate More goal and progress visit our Impact Report.

PACKAGING CIRCULARITY

PACKAGING CIRCULARITY

Our impact and embrace of circularity expand beyond our merchandise to include the materials and practices of our packaging.

For this, we aim to contribute to the minimization of waste entering our landfills from single-use packaging. Our approach includes an assessment of our current packaging procedures and identification of opportunities to introduce new, innovative materials that are reusable and recyclable. We seek to learn from these exercises and collaborate with our supply chain partners to accelerate our adoption of more sustainable packaging.

Currently, our customer shopping bags contain 40 percent post-consumer paper content and are 100 percent recyclable, once the handles are removed. For online purchases, we use cardboard boxes, which are fully recyclable, for our larger packages and for our smaller shipments, our plastic shipping bags are made of 30 percent post-consumer content. These bags can be dropped off for recycling at select national retailers. At our DC, we reuse cartons when sending products to our stores, and any cartons past their useful life are recycled with our vendor partners.

To learn more about our Reduce Waste goal and progress visit our Impact Report.