Save the Duck is an Italian outerwear brand pioneering animal-free alternatives to traditional down. Best known for their innovative plumtech® insulation, they create high-performance coats and jackets that deliver warmth without harming ducks or geese. Beyond reimagining ethical outerwear, Save the Duck actively supports humanitarian causes, including a long-term partnership with Save the Children to aid communities impacted by conflict in Afghanistan. Their mission blends performance, compassion, and social responsibility—proving that style and ethics can go hand in hand.
Save the Duck
Save the Duck is an Italian outerwear brand pioneering animal-free alternatives to traditional down. Best known for their innovative plumtech® insulation, they create high-performance coats and jackets that deliver warmth without harming ducks or geese. Beyond reimagining ethical outerwear, Save the Duck actively supports humanitarian causes, including a long-term partnership with Save the Children to aid communities impacted by conflict in Afghanistan. Their mission blends performance, compassion, and social responsibility—proving that style and ethics can go hand in hand.
Transparency
- Save the Duck achieved a perfect score on Eco-Stylist’s transparency criterion.
- They share the locations, number of employees, living wage, benefits, certificates and other information of each factory their products are produced in.
- Save the Duck addresses supplier subcontracting through their Code of Interdependence which ensures the International Labor Organization’s standards are being met.
Fair Labor
- Save the Duck has invested in conducting audits beyond their Tier 1 and some of their Tier 2 suppliers.
- Save the Duck conducts annual worker surveys to evaluate employee satisfaction.
- In some factories, workers have the opportunity to join a cooperative welfare plan to help support employees and their families.
- Save the Duck works with Amfori BCSI to address risks in their supply chain and ensure their suppliers are providing safe working conditions.
- Save the Duck addresses yearly donations to support projects/associations of local communities.
Sustainably Made
- Save the Duck discloses their aggregate emissions across Scopes 1, 2, and 3.
- Save the Duck is making efforts to reduce their GHG emissions by switching to renewable energy sources for much of their energy needs. The rest they have been covering through carbon credits.
- To balance the water consumption linked to the production of their garments, they are collaborating with The Sumba Foundation, by bringing drinking water, through the construction of water pumps and wells, to numerous villages on the island of Sumba, Indonesia.
- Save the Duck’s products are PETA-approved vegan and help customers buy less by creating durable, long-lasting apparel.
- They use Bluesign, OEKO-TEX, and Global Recycled Standard certified raw materials.
- Save the Duck makes a line made out of recycled materials.
- Their suppliers abide by a Restricted Substances List and they ship their products in recyclable packaging.
