Lacoste’s Unveils Its First Citizenship Report Aiming At Presenting Its ‘Durable Elegance’ Approach

Lacoste publishes its first sustainability report. In response to often highlighted practices in the sector, this report details another way of thinking about the textile industry. Lacoste has called this new societal and environmental vision Durable Elegance. Aware of the impact of the fashion industry, Lacoste has set itself two distinct roadmaps:

1. To make equal opportunities to reality
2. To give life to the principles of circular economy in the fashion sector

Solidifying a concrete expression to these commitments, the Lacoste Sustainable Development Report highlights the company’s progress on these issues and sets out its ambitions for 2025.

Making equal opportunities a reality

Convinced that diversity is a driver of community, Lacoste wrote its ‘Elevating Journey’ roadmap last year. This program aims to promote the social and professional insertion of disadvantaged or disabled people.

To achieve this, Lacoste is relying on its foundation and its academies, by strengthening their fields of intervention. For nearly fifteen years, the Lacoste Foundation has supported a growing number of partner associations working with young people around the world. Within its own organization, Lacoste is deploying an ambitious Mentorship program — open to all its employees—to enable them to provide individual support to a child or teenager in the longer term, to build a life path with them, to pass on expertise, and to help them project themselves into the future with greater confidence and peace of mind.

Lacoste has therefore set itself three objectives between now and 2025 to ensure that, on its own scale, it fights against inequalities:

- To involve 1,000 Lacoste employees in the Elevating Journey program. This program is based on three axes: reinforcing self-confidence, developing professional qualifications, and helping people to create their own businesses. 
- To support 10,000 young people in their social and professional advancement. 
- To co-finance 50 projects improving local living conditions for the populations involved in our supply chain. This program, called ‘Livelihood’, allows Lacoste to select and co-finance, with its production partners, development projects within the communities with which the brand is linked, to improve their living conditions. 

Bringing the principles of circular economy to life 

At the end of 2020, Lacoste joined the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s ‘Make Fashion Circular’ initiative. The company and the foundation share a common conviction: the need to reinvent the production model to develop the circular economy.  To respond to this, Lacoste has set itself four objectives by 2025:

- To achieve the Lacoste standard of social and environmental excellence for 100% of cotton producers and industrial suppliers. 
- To reduce the environmental impact of each garment sold by 15%, by optimizing the use of natural resources and reducing pollution throughout the production chain. 
- To double the life span of its entire range of polo shirts. 
- To offer a second life to 100% of textile waste and unsold goods.

These ambitions have been made possible by the traceability policy implemented by the company. Lacoste is thus among the first companies in the sector to have transparently communicated the complete list of its industrial partners, from its garment workshops to the spinning mills. 

As a company, it is our responsibility to show the way forward for a more sustainable fashion industry. With this dual  ‘Sustainable Elegance’ roadmap, we are stepping up our efforts and setting clear and tangible goals,» explains Catherine  Spindler, Chief Brand Officer of Lacoste.

Discover more about Lacoste’s Durable Elegance and to read the full Lacoste Sustainable Development Report at www. corporate.lacoste.com  

In the Philippines, Lacoste is exclusively distributed by Stores Specialists, Inc., and is also located at Central Square in Bonifacio High Street Central, Alabang Town Center, City of Dreams, Eastwood Mall, Estancia in Capitol Commons, Fairview Terraces, Gateway Mall, Greenbelt 5, Newport Mall, Podium, Power Plant Mall, Robinson’s Galleria, Robinson’s Magnolia, Robinson’s Place Manila, Rustan’s Makati, Rustan’s Shangri-La, Shangri-La Plaza East Wing, SM Mall of Asia, SM Megamall, Solaire, Trinoma, UP Town Center, Waterfront Cebu, Ayala Center Cebu,  Abreeza Davao, SM Davao, Veranza KCC Mall General Santos and Zamboanga. Lacoste Accessories is located at Glorietta 4; Lacoste Sport at Ayala Center Cebu; and Lacoste Footwear at Alabang Town Center. Visit lacoste.com.ph, follow facebook.com/LacostePhilippines, or visit @ssilifeph on Facebook and Instagram for more information.