Brand Accountability Index

Measured in data, not campaigns.

112+ fashion brands scored on 10 years of court records, government enforcement, and published investigations. No brand pays to be here.

All brands

How We Score

A proprietary decay-weighted scoring model. Every data point sourced from public records. Updated monthly.

Incident Record (35%)

  • Critical — gov't charges, forced labor (-80)
  • Severe — class actions, FTC settlements (-65)
  • Major — published investigations (BBC, NYT) (-45)
  • Moderate — individual lawsuits (-30)
  • Minor — controversies w/o legal action (-15)

Labor & Supply Chain (25%)

  • DOL / government labor findings
  • Factory audit results & violations
  • Forced labor reports (Know The Chain)
  • Worker safety violations
  • Published supply chain exposés

Systemic exploitation across multiple facilities scores differently from isolated incidents.

Transparency & Ethics (15%)

  • Fashion Transparency Index ranking
  • Good On You rating (4+)
  • Published supply chain disclosure
  • B Corp / Fair Trade certification
  • Public sustainability reports

Opacity — refusing to disclose — counts against a brand.

Recovery Actions (10%)

  • B Corp / Fair Trade certification (+35)
  • Independent third-party audit (+25)
  • Transparency Index Top 50 (+20)
  • Verifiable policy change (+15)
  • Settlement compliance verified (+10)
  • Public commitment w/ remediation (+8)

All data sourced from public court records, government enforcement databases (FTC, DOL, AGCM, PIPC, DGCCRF), and published investigative journalism. Every score is earned, not bought. No brand pays for inclusion, exclusion, or score modification. Scores recalculate monthly as the 10-year rolling window advances. Values-based incidents use a slower decay track.