Kering joined a consortium of brands committed to shift from wet to mostly dry textile processing.
September 2021
Kering announced that in keeping with a "vision of Luxury that is inseparable from the very highest environmental and social values and standards," all of their fashion brands would no longer use animal fur, starting with the 2022 collections.
October 2020
Fashion Pact virtually announced its one-year progress at the Copenhagen Fashion Summit, revealing that 80 percent of its members have sped up company-wide sustainability efforts to date.
August 2019
Kering presented the Fashion Pact during the 45th G7 summit, an initiative signed by 32 fashion firms committing to concrete measures to reduce their environmental impact.
May 2019
The group aligned with the strict European Union standards for animal welfare and banned models under 18 from its shows and photo shootings. The French President Emmanuel Macron mandated François-Henri Pinault to promote an industry coalition for sustainability.
December 2018
With Plug and Play, Kering launched the Kering Sustainable Innovation Award to reward and invest in startups focused on sustainability and luxury.
October 2018
Kering started to implement the use of the first 100% traceable organic cotton.
2015
Kering became an official partner of the Festival de Cannes and launched the program Women in Motion to raise women issues in the film industry
2013
After opening the Material Innovation Lab, a center in Novara, Italy, specialized in innovative materials and fabric sustainability, Kering became part of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices and was named top sustainable textile, apparel and luxury goods corporation" in the Corporate Knights’ Global 100 index in 2018
April 2012
Kering committed to a 4-year plan to significantly reduce its impact on the environment. The group developed the "Environmental Profit & Loss account" (EP&L) accounting method to track its progress. In 2017, the group presented its new sustainability program which targeted a 40% reduction of its global environmental impact by 2025, a strategy aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In September 2019, Kering committed to become carbon-neutral within its operations and its supply chain.