Brand portraits

Founded 1946, directly under LVMH since 2017. We checked six product pages — all six name the country of manufacture. Loewe, same group, names none.

Spanish leather house from 1846, wholly owned by LVMH since 1996. We read a €4,300 bag listing — material stated, country of manufacture absent.

French label, Swiss owner — and the clearest case on this site of a price a composition line cannot explain.

The only brand in our sample that names its individual factories by town.

A €39 oversized t-shirt names the country, the business “DENIZ TEKSTIL SAN.TIC. A.S”, its address in Denizli and 251 workers.

The €1,800 aluminium case names Germany as the place of manufacture. The €940 polycarbonate case says only “Designed in Germany”. Two sentences, one difference.

A t-shirt product page names the supplier, the factory, the full address and the number of workers. No luxury brand in our sample does this.

A €59 knitted t-shirt names the country, company, address and 505 workers — details that appear nowhere in the luxury sample.

Inditex’s biggest label — and a disclosure that stops short of a public factory list.

Uniqlo’s cheaper sister brand states on the product page where the sewing happened. The group publishes 705 factories with addresses and workforce figures.

One of the two brands that carry PVH Corp.

The second of PVH’s two revenue-carrying brands.

Roman house from 1925, part of LVMH since 2000. Fendi publishes 461 suppliers with company names and addresses — in the same group where Loewe names no country of manufacture.

Inditex’s mid-price line — often mistaken for an independent house.

Volume basics — and one of the more complete public factory lists in the sector.

Wholly owned by Fast Retailing since 2009, the same group as Uniqlo and GU. Its own site blocks our access — what we can say stands here.

Listed with no parent group — and routinely mistaken for part of one.

Paris house from 1952, part of LVMH since 1988. The $2,300 Antigona bag carries “Italy” in the page source, but in no sentence for readers.

Paris house from 1945, part of LVMH since 1996. We searched the entire 16 Bag product page — neither “Made in” nor any country name.

Paris house from 1970, part of LVMH since 1993. The €490 tiger sweatshirt states material and country of manufacture in plain text.

Paris shoemaker from 1895, part of LVMH since 1993. The €2,180 oxford carries a line reading “Origin: Made in Italy”. Creative direction has been vacant since 2021.

Florentine house from 1947, wholly inside the group since 2021. Two product pages checked, both name the country of manufacture.

Paris house from 1914, part of LVMH since 2018. Two product pages checked, both name Madagascar. That is precisely where the stronger signal lies.

Part of LVMH since 1997, but the sale to WHP Global is agreed and expected to close before year end. The $228 tote names no country of manufacture.

Dutch label without a logo — and the only brand in our sample that publishes fabric weight, country of manufacture and cost breakdown per product.

Long silhouettes, heavy cotton, and a supplier list you can actually check.

The most expensive house in our sample discloses less about its making than a 17.95 € t-shirt.

The one house in the group whose product is the fabric itself — and therefore the most interesting for this site.

monki.com sells nothing any more. The site carries only a pointer to weekday.com. What that means for the brand stands here.

The group’s namesake brand — and the reference point for its disclosure.

A €7.99 t-shirt names not one country of manufacture but three process stages separately. That is the finest resolution in our entire research.

The product page carries a section headed “origin” and names the country in plain text, alongside certifier and certificate number for material claims.

Pull&Bear names three process stages, Bershka the country. Stradivarius names none of it on a €16 t-shirt — same group, same shop software.