Diversity, Holistically

Diversity of people, thought, cultures, expression, and experience continues to be fundamental in making Christian Louboutin the unique and forward-facing luxury House it is. Taking our values further, we have decided to expand this vision to biodiversity as a whole—to protect, nourish, and help flourish the diversity of all living things on earth—inclusive of all species and people. On our journey to being a more responsible company, in order to protect our planet and the communities living on it, biodiversity is at the core. As we embark on our new ambitious path, we will be sharing our vision, actions, and achievements with you.

Our Commitment

At Christian Louboutin, we are approaching responsible sourcing in a holistic way—considering the entire lifecycle of raw materials and striving to source those that have lower carbon footprints, use less water, create less waste, and support our efforts to protect biodiversity. At the same time, we are focused on positively impacting the people who interact with our products along the way. We monitor the portfolio of materials that we use in our collections and Atelier to ensure that we have continuous improvement around environmental impact, social responsibility, and animal welfare. Christian Louboutin is committed to increasing the use of responsibly sourced materials and processes in its products, and we are taking ambitious steps to get there. We are proactively engaging within our supply chains to ensure rigorous social, ethical, and environmental standards are maintained.

How We Define Responsible Sourcing

Sourcing that minimizes negative impact and strives to have a positive impact on people, nature, and the planet. We prioritize materials and processes that are traceable and backed up by third-party certifications to verify their positive credentials. Our current criteria include materials with the following certifications:

Organically-produced materials:
Pre- and post-consumer recycled materials:
Other responsible sourcing methods:
Looking Forward

At Christian Louboutin, we are designing and implementing creative solutions to facilitate the use of traceable, low-impact, responsibly sourced, and recyclable materials across our products and collections. Through increasing supplier engagement, training, and upskilling internal teams on low-impact, responsible sourcing and design, we are laying the foundation for what’s to come. Our goal is to mainstream these materials within our collections.

Policies and Practices

We are committed to driving incremental positive impact on people, nature, and the planet beyond minimum compliance requirements. We developed a social responsibility program that ensures we are setting and maintaining a rigorous standard in our supply chain. Amongst this, we are committed to strengthening the labor protections of our artisans by routinely monitoring suppliers on topics including health and safety, welfare, fair pay, human rights, forced labor, and discrimination.

We have restricted the use of certain high-impact and ethically challenging materials, like animal fur, for example.

We have developed Responsible Sourcing Internal Guidance for our sourcing, product development, and design teams to support them in making the most effective choices daily.

Our Sustainability, Communications, and Digital departments work closely together to ensure accurate information is presented for each of our products. We have improved and streamlined communications to enable accurate, effective communication with our stakeholders.

We are tracking the percentage of responsibly-sourced styles in each of our collections—those containing over 50% responsibly sourced materials (as defined above) by weight, to benchmark our progress internally and guide improvements.

We’ve embarked on a journey, and we look forward to sharing our progress with you.