Faherty

Faherty reports that 62% of its garments are made with lower or lowest impact materials, including organic cotton, recycled cotton, recycled polyester, and linen. It also uses some high emissions materials, such as polyester, viscose, and nylon. It plans to reduce its reliance on high emissions materials by achieving 100% 'responsible' materials by 2030, including those that are regenerative or traceable.

Faherty uses renewable energy in a portion of its production and purchases RECs for all its energy use in its stores. Faherty sources and manufactures its materials globally, which is standard practice in the fashion industry.

Faherty has made efforts to reduce the amount of virgin plastic in its packaging, and reports that a high proportion of its orders shipped in plastic-free packaging such as fsc-certified Vela paper mailers. It's working to reduce the impact of shipping emissions in its supply chain, and has a goal to move 90% of inbound shipments via ocean freight.

Faherty has a repair program which is free for items under its 5 year warranty. It sells products that require dry cleaning or hot washing, which increases the emissions every time you wear an item.

Faherty has a take back program, Second Wave, that accepts its own brand's clothing for resale and recycling. It shares details on the success of this program - since 2018 it has diverted over 7,000 lbs of textiles from landfill.

Faherty offers some core pieces but also releases new items seasonally throughout the year.

Commons is still evaluating this brand's marketing emails.

Faherty has a prominent and comprehensive sustainability page that was last updated in 2024. Faherty also has a detailed annual report, with a clear, impact driven strategy and progress reporting, that was last published in 2023.

Faherty internally measures its overall emissions on a company level. However, it publicly reports categories proportionally instead of providing CO2e values, which limits accountability.

Commons couldn't find verification that Faherty offsets any emissions. Commons couldn't find emissions reduction targets for Faherty, though the brand had a stated goal to set targets in 2024.

Faherty traces and publishes geographic information about all of its supply chain partners via Retraced. 100% of its linen supply chain is traceable. It has a supplier code of conduct which includes provisions for no forced labor, no unauthorized subcontracting, allowing collective bargaining, and paying living wages (which is a rare inclusion).