Luxury & Fashion

We support businesses across the luxury and fashion value chain to assess risks, understand impacts, and evaluate the maturity of their responsible sourcing practices. Our approach combines proprietary data analytics with systematic verification methodologies, delivering thorough yet pragmatic due diligence tailored to your business needs and stakeholder requirements.

• Support luxury and fashion brands to assess risks, impacts, and the maturity of their responsible business practices
• Deliver pragmatic, ESG-focused due diligence informed by extensive on-the-ground experience across textile, leather, and garment supply chains
• Provide clear, tailored reporting aligned with business and stakeholder needs
• Help brands and retailers identify and mitigate human rights, social, and environmental risks linked to suppliers and sub-tier manufacturers
• Conduct supplier due diligence for factories, tanneries, mills, and raw material suppliers against industry standards and responsible sourcing frameworks
• Support investors and financiers in assessing ESG and human rights risks in transactions and M&A within the fashion sector
• Enable fashion companies to understand and manage ESG risks arising from procurement activities across multi-tier supply chains

Aseri is regularly asked to produce insight reports and data-driven research and analysis for a wide range of clients.

Our expert team of responsible sourcing specialists and data analysts have access to world-leading data insights which can help teams with:

• Informed decision making on complex topics using our in-depth data platform covering textile production regions, garment manufacturing hubs, and raw material sourcing areas
• Legislation gap analysis to support internal audit programs and help your audit team understand the most likely areas of non-conformance with regulations like the German Supply Chain Act, CSDDD, and upcoming EU due diligence requirements
• Develop risk assessments and opportunities for global fashion companies' responsible sourcing programmes
• Develop bespoke supplier reports for your teams to understand potential risks, opportunities and gap assessments against your expected standards and codes of conduct

Benchmarking and Maturity Assessment - We benchmark management systems and operating practices against compliance frameworks and responsible fashion standards. Our deep data insights platform assesses current performance and identifies priority improvements.

Management System Design and Implementation - We design and implement management systems for responsible business conduct and supply chain due diligence. This spans policies, procedures, risk assessment processes, and supplier onboarding protocols, through to grievance mechanisms and reporting that meet regulatory requirements like the German Supply Chain Act, CSDDD, and transparency legislation.

Audit Preparation and Corrective Action Support - We prepare fashion brands, manufacturers, and suppliers for audits against industry standards and assurance frameworks. Our support includes gap assessments, documentation development, staff training, and implementing corrective actions from previous audits.

Technology Solutions - To be completed.

Supplier Due Diligence Assessments - We deliver independent due diligence assessments of garment factories, textile mills, tanneries, embellishment facilities, and raw material suppliers against HREDD requirements and industry standards. Our assessments include:

• Country and regional risk classification using our proprietary risk assessment framework, revealing factory-level and district-level risk variation that national classifications miss
• Supply chain traceability verification and documentation review across multi-tier supply chains
• Stakeholder impact assessments including worker voice and community engagement
• Clear gap analysis and corrective action recommendations

Strategic Sourcing and Bespoke Reports - We produce tailored analysis for sourcing and procurement teams, including:

• Salient ESG issue identification specific to luxury materials and fashion categories
• Comprehensive human rights and environmental risk profiling for sourcing regions
• Historical legacy issues and reputational exposure assessments
• Community relations vulnerabilities and social license concerns
• Labour rights conditions including living wages, working hours, and freedom of association
• Risk integration into sourcing decisions and supplier selection processes

Crafting and implementing a robust human rights strategy is complex, encompassing sustainable development, worker wellbeing, and mitigation of negative impacts. It must also consider environmental impacts, such as water usage in textile processing, chemical management, and waste reduction.

A Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) can help a company assess and address the legal requirements relating to its existing or potential human rights impacts and meet its responsibility to address all human rights across its extended supply chain.

Aseri can help you determine whether the specific human rights issues affecting your company are covered by other impact assessments or due diligence processes, and whether they require a separate HRIA to ensure compliance with sustainable business regulations.

We deliver awareness raising and sourcing team training to help teams understand risks, alongside internal audit capacity building and full audit training. Our auditors are accredited to the highest standards including ISO 14001, 45001, APSCA CSCA and have conducted thousands of audits globally. We can:

• Train your team in the environmental, social and governance issues present in fashion supply chains, and how to identify and mitigate risk
• Help your team to implement any improvement actions needed to close the gaps identified during audits and assessments
• Provide the tools to improve operations in line with international and recognized standards and regulations, developing long-term internal capacity
• Build supplier capability to meet brand standards and improve working conditions throughout the supply chain