GANT

A list that gives everything away

GANT’s sustainability page has a panel called “Factory lists”, and inside it sits a single link. Click it and you get something most fashion brands never release: a schedule of more than sixty factories, each with supplier, site name and full address. Street, industrial estate, town, province. For several, even the telephone number.

The countries run from Italy and Portugal through Turkey, Romania, Ukraine and Lithuania to Tunisia, Morocco, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, China and the United States. That is more than almost any house in this research shows.

And then you try to search it.

The list is a photograph

You cannot. The document consists of a single image. Every company, every address, every phone number is a photograph. You cannot look up a name. You cannot copy anything out. You cannot sort the list, count it by country, or set it against another house’s.

Look closely and you can see how it happened: in one row the leftover text of another visibly overlaps its neighbour — exactly how it looks when someone photographs a section of a spreadsheet and drops the picture into a PDF.

We enlarged it and read it line by line. There was no other way to use the list.

We impute no intent. But the whole distinction this site is about sits right here, between “published” and “usable”. The data exists, more completely than at most houses. The form strips it of its worth.

On the shirt itself, nothing

Back to the start, to where the buying happens. We went through a poplin dress shirt, white, one hundred euros down from two hundred. The page leaves little out: fit, collar shape, hem, care, material.

A country of manufacture is not part of it — not in the text, and not in the details recorded behind the page. Origin is simply not a field there.

And the factory list is no help. It names no products, no product groups, no brands within the house. Which of the sixty-plus sites sewed this shirt cannot be answered from the published material. The document carries no date either; the year appears only in the file name.

The cloth is named, the sewing is not

There is one production statement after all, plainly visible in the description:

This shirt uses a premium cotton poplin that’s been made at British mill, Thomas Mason.

The mill, then, with company and country. Where the cloth became a shirt is not stated.

It is the same figure as at Suitsupply: the production step that flatters becomes a selling point; the other never appears. Both houses name a mill, both stay silent on assembly. And tellingly, it is precisely that stage which is missing from GANT’s factory list — the list covers garment factories only. The panel is still called “Factory lists”, plural.

An American name, a Swedish company, a Swiss group

GANT tells its own origin as beginning in 1949 at Yale University — a campus store, shirts, a piece of American fashion history.

The company behind the brand today is the Swedish GANT AB. And gant.de carries a note that Maus Frères is required to file country-by-country tax reporting — the Swiss group whose fashion arm trades as MF Brands Group.

Three countries in one brand, and none of them says anything about where the sewing happens. Anyone inferring American manufacturing from the Ivy League origin is as wide of the mark as anyone inferring Swedish manufacturing from “GANT AB”.

How we checked

We went through the product page, the sustainability page and the factory list by hand, opening every collapsible panel individually. All quotations appear in the brand’s own wording. Checked on 30 July 2026; the shirt carries item number 3260080-110 and is stated as 100% cotton.