Calvin Klein
The statement is inconspicuous and still answers what most houses fail to.
Calvin Klein
- Origin
- United States
- Founded
- Not disclosed
- Group
- PVH Corp.
- Production
- Supplier list published
- Core materials
- Not disclosed
- Price level
- 3/4
How much this brand discloses, and how much of it we could verify. It is not a quality rating — a composition line cannot tell you how good a fabric is. How we calculate it
- Production disclosure 25/25
- Linked sources 16/20
- Own material check 0/15
- Fabric weight stated 0/12
- Country stated per product 0/10
- Construction detail stated 0/10
- Cost breakdown published 0/8
Evidence for the price About what this price band usually documents
The last line
A three-pack of crew neck t-shirts, €44.90, pure cotton. Open the “Details” panel, read the “composition and care” block to its end, and you find:
Herstellungsland: Bangladesch
Country of manufacture: Bangladesh (German shop)
No heading, no seal, no paragraph about values. A line at the end of a list — and thereby more than Céline says about a $4,650 bag.
The sister brand says nothing
Tommy Hilfiger belongs to the same group and visibly runs on the same platform — the panels are built identically down to their technical naming. There the same line is empty, across seven pages checked.
That sharpens a thesis we put on the overview page, which says the sales platform decides disclosure rather than the owner. More precisely: the platform decides whether the statement is possible. Whether it is maintained is decided by the brand.
And still not a field
A detail that confirms this site’s central finding: the line also appears in the data sheet behind the page — but not as a field of its own, only as the tail of the description text.
To a machine that is a sentence, not a datum. A comparison service looking for the origin field finds nothing.
It is the same case as almost everywhere else, only one degree subtler: here the statement is not missing, it merely sits where nobody can read it out.
923 facilities, without a brand column
The group publishes a supplier list, which we opened ourselves: 926 rows with facility name, full address, city, worker numbers, product type and vendor. 923 facilities in 28 countries, active as of February 2026, separated into first and second tier.
Which of them sewed the shirts we checked does not follow — the list has no column for the brand. So the “Bangladesh” statement and the list fit together without ever meeting.
Where the disclosure ends
The facility in Bangladesh.
The link between facility and brand.
Whether every item carries the line. We checked one.
About the house
Founded in New York in 1968, acquired by PVH Corp. in 2003.
How we checked
The shop would not open for us; the page was read by hand on 1 August 2026 with every panel opened. The supplier list we downloaded and counted ourselves.
Verifiable statements with a source, not a rating. We publish no ethics score of our own — for that, follow the external link.
- Production countries
- Bangladesh
- Supplier list published
- View the list
The products this brand is defined by. Not a ranking — we have not worn or washed any of them. Each entry says why it is here.
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Underwear with the logo waistband
Marketed from 1982 as designer underwear — with the brand name visible on the elastic waistband. The garment worn in order to be seen.
Independent coverage
Why it is listed here
Several independent fashion titles name the logo waistband as the brand’s defining product and date its introduction to 1982. That says nothing about how it is made today.
Wallpaper* 27 July 2026
What we can document
- Owner: PVH Corp. (United States), acquired 2003
- PVH renamed itself from Phillips-Van Heusen after the acquisitions
- Supplier list published with factory name, address and headcount
- Underwear with the logo waistband marketed as a designer product from 1982
What we cannot
- Composition, prices and origin of individual products — not yet checked by us
- Who actually manufactures the fragrance, eyewear and watches
- Whether the making justifies the price — we do not test
Where to buy Calvin Klein
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Sources
4 in total · archived internally- Jahresbericht (Form 10-K) — Tommy Hilfiger und Calvin Klein als konzerneigene Marken, über 90 % des Umsatzes — PVH Corp. / U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Read 27 July 2026
- Markenübersicht des Unternehmens — PVH Corp. Read 27 July 2026
- Lieferantenliste (Fabrikname, Adresse, Beschäftigtenzahl, Produktart, Lieferantenebene) — PVH Corp. Read 27 July 2026
- Unternehmensseite — Übernahme von Calvin Klein 2003 und Tommy Hilfiger 2010, Umbenennung von Phillips-Van Heusen zu PVH — PVH Corp. Read 27 July 2026
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Read on
A garment is made across several countries. The label almost always names only one of them. Which one, and what falls away in the process.
We asked twenty brands across four groups the same question: does the product page say where the item was made? The answer has nothing to do with price — and that is the real story.
Questions readers ask
Who owns Calvin Klein?
PVH Corp., based in the United States, since 2003. The same group owns Tommy Hilfiger, acquired in 2010.
Does Calvin Klein still design the clothes?
No. The founder is no longer with the company. The name is a group trademark, not a sign of a designing individual.
Does Calvin Klein disclose where it produces?
Its parent PVH publishes a supplier list with factory name, address and headcount. It covers own production — not licensed goods such as fragrance, eyewear or watches.
Why is the evidence score not higher?
Because we have not yet run our own material checks on this brand’s products. The score measures our research as well as the brand.