Vivien Solari Wears 'Panthere de Cartier' Jewelry by Charlotte Hadden for Exit Magazine SS2020

Model Vivien Solari is styled by Sam Ranger in simple elegance accented by ‘Panthere de Cartier’ luxury jewelry. Photographer Charlotte Hadden is in the studio for Exit Magazine’s Spring-Summer 2020 issue.

Looking for more information on Cartier’s sustainability practices, it strikes me as being more vague than those of Tiffany and Chopard. Here is Tiffany & Co. 2017 Sustainability Report. — all 100 pages. And this fall 2019 link takes us to a detailed overview of all Tiffany & Co. sustainability practices and global initiatives.

Working off the Cartier resources website, this simple list of very general Sustainable Development goals appears, when I request the output of Cartier’s sustainability strategy in report form. One must never draw any conclusions between a 100 page sustainability report from Tiffany and a 1 page report from Cartier. This link from the US Cartier website highlights the brand’s philanthropy efforts, particularly with women.

The content is heavy on culture generally but I don’t see any public discussion of Cartier’s sustainability efforts. If I have missed the sustainability discussion — including the rights of workers — on this page, I sincerely apologize. There’s no time to click every link in the website.

Clearly, the discussion is front and center at Tiffany. I also reviewed a decade of Cartier searches at Exit Magazine, This editorial is not online yet, nor any references to Cartier and sustainability at Exit Magazine.

Human Rights Watch issued a major report in February, 2018 The Hidden Costs of Jewelry. They write:

Tiffany and Co. can trace all of its newly mined gold back to one mine of origin and conducts regular human rights assessments with the mine. Cartier and Chopard have full chain of custody for a portion of their gold supply. 

Tiffany is sharing that transparency of mining and jewelry production process with buyers of its diamond rings. It appears — and I may be WRONG — that Cartier today does not have that same commitment to transparency. ~ Anne