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The Planet Fashion Standard
An independent, evidence-based framework for scoring what a garment is made from and how the business behind it actually operates — built to replace vague sustainability claims with numbers anyone can check.
Read the full methodology →A garment, and the business behind it
Most sustainability ratings collapse everything into a single number — which means a business with a genuinely clean supply chain and a poorly-made garment scores identically to one with an excellent garment and an opaque factory. The Planet Fashion Standard keeps these separate on purpose.
What it's made from
Fixed at the point of manufacture. Covers the physical garment — fibre content, chemical safety, durability, and what happens to it at end of life.
- Fibre & Material Composition30%
- Fibre Source & Traceability15%
- Chemical Safety (incl. PFAS)15%
- Product Longevity15%
- Microplastic Pollution10%
- Circularity & End-of-Life10%
- Consumer Information5%
How the business operates
Re-assessed at least annually. Covers the manufacturer, wholesaler or retailer as a whole — labour standards, transparency, and business model, not just the flagship product line.
- Manufacturing, Labour & Conditions25%
- Transparency & Certifications20%
- Business Model & Scale15%
- Worker Wellbeing10%
- Packaging & Logistics10%
- Water Impact8%
- Energy & Carbon8%
- Animal Welfare (where applicable)4%
The Planet Fashion Grade
Each score rolls up to a single letter grade — a front-of-pack summary, the same way a nutrition label pairs a traffic light with an ingredients table. The grade never replaces the category breakdown; it sits alongside it.
An organisation or product needs disclosed evidence in at least 80% of a score's weighted categories before a grade is published. Below that threshold, it's marked Not yet assessed — an absent grade and a failing one are different signals, and the Standard never confuses the two.
Built so it can't be influenced
A rating body that can be neutral must not be open to influence with financial or other incentives. Every mechanic in the Standard exists to keep the score tied to evidence, not marketing.
Confidence-weighted
An independently audited claim and a self-reported one are never scored the same. Self-reported figures are capped, regardless of the number claimed.
No pay-to-play
Planet Fashion accepts no payment, sponsorship, or in-kind consideration from any organisation being scored — a hard rule, not a stated intention.
Versioned & re-assessed
Every score carries the date it was assessed and the methodology version used. Organisation scores are refreshed at least annually.
Correctable
Any organisation can dispute a score with evidence. Every dispute is logged publicly, whether or not the score changes.
See exactly how a score is calculated
Every category, every weight, every confidence tier — the full methodology is public, versioned, and open to challenge.