Eileen Fisher

Clothing
Written By Lina K

Eileen Fisher was named in a report from the Helena Kennedy Centre, published in November 2021, as one of many international brands whose supply chains were linked to textile companies known to source cotton from Xinjiang.

The brand’s response to the report included the following:

Consistent with our practices and legal obligations, Eileen Fisher has engaged in a thorough and ongoing review of its supply chains to ensure that it does not use cotton from the Xinjiang region of China. Our own records indicate that we have not used materials - cotton or otherwise - from any of the fabric suppliers named in the report.

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We also revised our “Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery” statement (which states that we do not source finished garments, cotton fibers and materials from the Xinjiang region) and communicated it to all of our suppliers and sourcing agents. This includes the suppliers named in the Sheffield Hallam University report.

Their full response can be found here, in Annex D of the report.

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