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Usage | |
Writing system | Latin script |
Type | Alphabetic |
Language of origin | Latin language |
Phonetic usage | [h] [x] [ħ] [0̸] [ɦ] [ɥ] [ʜ] [ʔ] [◌ʰ] [ç] /heɪtʃ/ |
Unicode value | U+0048, U+0068 |
Alphabetical position | 8 |
History | |
Development | |
Time period | ~-700 to present |
Descendants | • Ħ • Ƕ • Ⱶ • Һ • ʰ • h • ħ • ℍ |
Sisters | Һ Ԧ ח ح ܚ ࠄ ࠇ ? ? Հհ 8 |
Variations | (See below) |
Other | |
Other letters commonly used with | h(x), ch, gh, nh, ph, sh, ſh, th, wh, (x)h |
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H (namedaitch/eɪtʃ/ or, regionally, haitch/heɪtʃ/, plural aitches)[1][2] is the eighth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
- 3Use in writing systems
- 4Related characters
History
Egyptian hieroglyph fence | Old Semitic ħ | Phoenician heth | Greek heta | Etruscan H | | Latin H |
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The original Semitic letter Heth most likely represented the voiceless pharyngeal fricative (ħ). The form of the letter probably stood for a fence or posts.
The Greeketa 'Η' in Archaic Greek alphabets still represented /h/ (later on it came to represent a long vowel, /ɛː/). In this context, the letter eta is also known as heta to underline this fact. Thus, in the Old Italic alphabets, the letter heta of the Euboean alphabet was adopted with its original sound value /h/.
While Etruscan and Latin had /h/ as a phoneme, almost all Romance languages lost the sound—Romanian later re-borrowed the /h/ phoneme from its neighbouring Slavic languages, and Spanish developed a secondary /h/ from /f/, before losing it again; various Spanish dialects have developed [h] as an allophone of /s/ or /x/ in most Spanish-speaking countries, and various dialects of Portuguese use it as an allophone of /ʀ/. 'H' is also used in many spelling systems in digraphs and trigraphs, such as 'ch', which represents /tʃ/ in Spanish, Galician, Old Portuguese and English, /ʃ/ in French and modern Portuguese, /k/ in Italian, French and English, /x/ in German, Czech, Polish, Slovak, one native word of English and a few loanwords into English, and /ç/ in German.
Name in English
For most English speakers, the name for the letter is pronounced as /eɪtʃ/ and spelled 'aitch'[1] or occasionally 'eitch'. The pronunciation /heɪtʃ/ and the associated spelling 'haitch' is often considered to be h-adding and is considered nonstandard in England.[3] It is, however, a feature of Hiberno-English,[4] as well as scattered varieties of Edinburgh, England, and Welsh English.[5]
![H&m Apparel H&m Apparel](https://inhabitat.com/ecouterre/wp-content/blogs.dir/26/files/2010/09/h-and-m-6.jpg)
The perceived name of the letter affects the choice of indefinite article before initialisms beginning with H: for example 'an H-bomb' or 'a H-bomb'. The pronunciation /heɪtʃ/ may be a hypercorrection formed by analogy with the names of the other letters of the alphabet, most of which include the sound they represent.[6]
The haitch pronunciation of h has spread in England, being used by approximately 24% of English people born since 1982,[7] and polls continue to show this pronunciation becoming more common among younger native speakers. Despite this increasing number, the pronunciation without the /h/ sound is still considered to be standard in England, although the pronunciation with /h/ is also attested as a legitimate variant.[3]
Authorities disagree about the history of the letter's name. The Oxford English Dictionary says the original name of the letter was [ˈaha] in Latin; this became [ˈaka] in Vulgar Latin, passed into English via Old French [atʃ], and by Middle English was pronounced [aːtʃ]. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language derives it from French hache from Latin haca or hic. Anatoly Liberman suggests a conflation of two obsolete orderings of the alphabet, one with H immediately followed by K and the other without any K: reciting the former's ..., H, K, L,... as [...(h)a ka el ...] when reinterpreted for the latter ..., H, L,... would imply a pronunciation [(h)a ka] for H.[8]
Use in writing systems
English
In English, ⟨h⟩ occurs as a single-letter grapheme (being either silent or representing the voiceless glottal fricative (/h/) and in various digraphs, such as ⟨ch⟩ /tʃ/, /ʃ/, /k/, or /x/), ⟨gh⟩ (silent, /ɡ/, /k/, /p/, or /f/), ⟨ph⟩ (/f/), ⟨rh⟩ (/r/), ⟨sh⟩ (/ʃ/), ⟨th⟩ (/θ/ or /ð/), ⟨wh⟩ (/hw/[9]). The letter is silent in a syllable rime, as in ah, ohm, dahlia, cheetah, pooh-poohed, as well as in certain other words (mostly of French origin) such as hour, honest, herb (in American but not British English) and vehicle. Initial /h/ is often not pronounced in the weak form of some function words including had, has, have, he, her, him, his, and in some varieties of English (including most regional dialects of England and Wales) it is often omitted in all words (see '⟨h⟩'-dropping). It was formerly common for an rather than a to be used as the indefinite article before a word beginning with /h/ in an unstressed syllable, as in 'an historian', but use of a is now more usual (see English articles § Indefinite article). In English, The pronunciation of ⟨h⟩ as /h/ can be analyzed as a voiceless vowel. That is, when the phoneme /h/ precedes a vowel, /h/ may be realized as a voiceless version of the subsequent vowel. For example the word ⟨hit⟩, /hɪt/ is realized as [ɪ̥ɪt].[10]
Other languages
In the German language, the name of the letter is pronounced /haː/. Following a vowel, it often silently indicates that the vowel is long: In the word erhöhen ('heighten'), the second ⟨h⟩ is mute for most speakers outside of Switzerland. In 1901, a spelling reform eliminated the silent ⟨h⟩ in nearly all instances of ⟨th⟩ in native German words such as thun ('to do') or Thür ('door'). It has been left unchanged in words derived from Greek, such as Theater ('theater') and Thron ('throne'), which continue to be spelled with ⟨th⟩ even after the last German spelling reform.
In Spanish and Portuguese, ⟨h⟩ ('hache' in Spanish, pronounced Spanish pronunciation: ['atʃe], or agá in Portuguese, pronounced [aˈɣa] or [ɐˈɡa]) is a silent letter with no pronunciation, as in hijo[ˈixo] ('son') and húngaro[ˈũɡaɾu] ('Hungarian'). The spelling reflects an earlier pronunciation of the sound /h/. It is sometimes pronounced with the value [h], in some regions of Andalusia, Extremadura, Canarias, Cantabria and the Americas in the beginning of some words. ⟨h⟩ also appears in the digraph ⟨ch⟩, which represents /tʃ/ in Spanish and northern Portugal, and /ʃ/ in oral traditions that merged both sounds (the latter originarily represented by ⟨x⟩ instead) e.g. in most of the Portuguese language and some Spanish-speaking places, prominently Chile, as well as ⟨nh⟩ /ɲ/ and ⟨lh⟩ /ʎ/ in Portuguese, whose spelling is inherited from Occitan.
In French, the name of the letter is pronounced /aʃ/. The French orthography classifies words that begin with this letter in two ways, one of which can affect the pronunciation, even though it is a silent letter either way. The H muet, or 'mute' ⟨h⟩, is considered as though the letter were not there at all, so for example the singular definite articlele or la, which is elided to l' before a vowel, elides before an H muet followed by a vowel. For example, le + hébergement becomes l'hébergement ('the accommodation'). The other kind of ⟨h⟩ is called h aspiré ('aspirated '⟨h⟩', though it is not normally aspirated phonetically), and does not allow elision or liaison. For example in le homard ('the lobster') the article le remains unelided, and may be separated from the noun with a bit of a glottal stop. Most words that begin with an H muet come from Latin (honneur, homme) or from Greek through Latin (hécatombe), whereas most words beginning with an H aspiré come from Germanic (harpe, hareng) or non-Indo-European languages (harem, hamac, haricot); in some cases, an orthographic ⟨h⟩ was added to disambiguate the [v] and semivowel [ɥ] pronunciations before the introduction of the distinction between the letters ⟨v⟩ and ⟨u⟩: huit (from uit, ultimately from Latin octo), huître (from uistre, ultimately from Greek through Latin ostrea).
In Italian, ⟨h⟩ has no phonological value. Its most important uses are in the digraphs 'ch' /k/ and 'gh' /ɡ/, as well as to differentiate the spellings of certain short words that are homophones, for example some present tense forms of the verb avere ('to have') (such as hanno, 'they have', vs. anno, 'year'), and in short interjections (oh, ehi).
Some languages, including Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, and Finnish, use ⟨h⟩ as a breathy voiced glottal fricative[ɦ], often as an allophone of otherwise voiceless /h/ in a voiced environment.
In Hungarian, the letter has five independent pronunciations, perhaps more than in any other language, with an additional three uses as a productive and non-productive member of a digraph. H may represent /h/ as in the name of the Székely town Hargita; intervocalically it represents /ɦ/ as in 'tehéz'; it represents /x/ in the word 'doh'; it represents /ç/ in 'ihlet'; and it is silent in 'Cseh'. As part of a diphthong, it represents, in archaic spelling, /t͡ʃ/ with the letter C as in the name 'Széchényi; it represents, again, with the letter C, /x/ in 'pech' (which is pronounced [pɛx]); in certain environments it breaks palatalization of a consonant, as in the name 'Horthy' which is pronounced [hɔrti] (without the intervening H, the name 'Horty' would be pronounced [hɔrc]); and finally, it acts as a silent component of a diphthong, as in the name 'Vargha', pronounced [vɒrgɒ].
In Ukrainian and Belarusian, when written in the Latin alphabet, ⟨h⟩ is also commonly used for /ɦ/, which is otherwise written with the Cyrillic letter ⟨г⟩.
In Irish, ⟨h⟩ is not considered an independent letter, except for a very few non-native words, however ⟨h⟩ placed after a consonant is known as a 'séimhiú' and indicates lenition of that consonant; ⟨h⟩ began to replace the original form of a séimhiú, a dot placed above the consonant, after the introduction of typewriters.
In most dialects of Polish, both ⟨h⟩ and the digraph ⟨ch⟩ always represent /x/.
In Basque, during the 20th century it was not used in the orthography of the Basque dialects in Spain but it marked an aspiration in the North-Eastern dialects.During the standardization of Basque in the 1970s, the compromise was reached that h would be accepted if it were the first consonant in a syllable.Hence, herri ('people') and etorri ('to come') were accepted instead of erri (Biscayan) and ethorri (Souletin).Speakers could pronounce the h or not.For the dialects lacking the aspiration, this meant a complication added to the standardized spelling.
Other systems
As a phonetic symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), it is used mainly for the so-called aspirations (fricative or trills), and variations of the plain letter are used to represent two sounds: the lowercase form ⟨h⟩ represents the voiceless glottal fricative, and the small capital form ⟨ʜ⟩ represents the voiceless epiglottal fricative (or trill). With a bar, minuscule ⟨ħ⟩ is used for a voiceless pharyngeal fricative. Specific to the IPA, a hooked ⟨ɦ⟩ is used for a voiced glottal fricative, and a superscript ⟨ʰ⟩ is used to represent aspiration.
Related characters
Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet
- H with diacritics: Ĥ ĥȞ ȟĦ ħḨ ḩⱧ ⱨẖ ẖḤ ḥḢ ḣḦ ḧḪ ḫꞕ
- IPA-specific symbols related to H: ʜꟸɦʰʱɥᶣ[11]
- ᴴ : Modifier letter H is used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet[12]
- ₕ : Subscript small h was used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet prior to its formal standardization in 1902[13]
- ʰ : Modifier letter small h is used in Indo-European studies[14]
- ʮ and ʯ : Turned H with fishhook and turned H with fishhook and tail are used in Sino-Tibetanist linguistics[15]
- Ƕ ƕ : Latin letter hwair, derived from a ligature of the digraph hv, and used to transliterate the Gothic letter ? (which represented the sound [hʷ])
- Ⱶ ⱶ : Claudian letters[16]
Ancestors, siblings and descendants in other alphabets
- ? : Semitic letter Heth, from which the following symbols derive
- Η η : Greek letter Eta, from which the following symbols derive
- ? : Old Italic H, the ancestor of modern Latin H
- ᚺ, ᚻ : Runic letter haglaz, which is probably a descendant of Old Italic H
- Һ һ : Cyrillic letter Shha, which derives from Latin H
- ? : Gothic letter haal
- ? : Old Italic H, the ancestor of modern Latin H
- Η η : Greek letter Eta, from which the following symbols derive
Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations
- h : Planck constant
- ℏ : reduced Planck constant
- ℍ: Double-struck capital H
Computing codes
Character | H | h | ||
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Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H | LATIN SMALL LETTER H | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 72 | U+0048 | 104 | U+0068 |
UTF-8 | 72 | 48 | 104 | 68 |
Numeric character reference | H | H | h | h |
EBCDIC family | 200 | C8 | 136 | 88 |
ASCII1 | 72 | 48 | 104 | 68 |
1 and all encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
Other representations
NATO phonetic | Morse code |
Hotel | ···· |
Signal flag | Flag semaphore | American manual alphabet (ASLfingerspelling) | Braille dots-125 |
See also
References
- ^ ab'H' Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); 'aitch' or 'haitch', op. cit.
- ^'the definition of h'. Dictionary.com. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
- ^ ab''Haitch' or 'aitch'? How do you pronounce 'H'?'. BBC News. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
- ^Dolan, T. P. (1 January 2004). 'A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English'. Gill & Macmillan Ltd. Retrieved 3 September 2016 – via Google Books.
- ^Vaux, Bert. The Cambridge Online Survey of World Englishes. University of Cambridge.
- ^Todd, L. & Hancock I.: 'International English Ipod', page 254. Routledge, 1990.
- ^John C. Wells, Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, page 360, Pearson, Harlow, 2008
- ^Liberman, Anatoly (7 August 2013). 'Alphabet soup, part 2: H and Y'. Oxford Etymologist. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
- ^In many dialects, /hw/ and /w/ have merged
- ^'phonology - Why is /h/ called voiceless vowel phonetically, and /h/ consonant phonologically?'. Linguistics Stack Exchange. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^Constable, Peter (19 April 2004). 'L2/04-132 Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS'(PDF).
- ^Everson, Michael; et al. (20 March 2002). 'L2/02-141: Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS'(PDF).
- ^Ruppel, Klaas; Aalto, Tero; Everson, Michael (27 January 2009). 'L2/09-028: Proposal to encode additional characters for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet'(PDF).
- ^Anderson, Deborah; Everson, Michael (7 June 2004). 'L2/04-191: Proposal to encode six Indo-Europeanist phonetic characters in the UCS'(PDF).
- ^Cook, Richard; Everson, Michael (20 September 2001). 'L2/01-347: Proposal to add six phonetic characters to the UCS'(PDF).
- ^Everson, Michael (12 August 2005). 'L2/05-193R2: Proposal to add Claudian Latin letters to the UCS'(PDF).
External links
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article H. |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to H. |
- The dictionary definition of H at Wiktionary
- The dictionary definition of h at Wiktionary
- Lubliner, Coby. 2008. 'The Story of H.' (essay on origins and uses of the letter 'h')
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Aktiebolag | |
Traded as | Nasdaq Stockholm: HM B |
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Industry | Retail |
Predecessor | Hennes |
Founded | 1947; 72 years ago (as Hennes) Västerås, Sweden |
Founder | Erling Persson |
Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 4,958 (as of 28 February 2019)[1] |
Worldwide | |
Key people | Stefan Persson(Chairman) Karl-Johan Persson(President and CEO) |
Products | Clothing, accessories |
Revenue | US$25.191 billion (2016)[2] |
US$2.692 billion (2016)[2] | |
US$2.106 billion (2016)[2] | |
Total assets | US$11.139 billion (2016)[2] |
Total equity | US$6.919 billion (2016)[2] |
Owner | Stefan Persson (28%)[3] |
148,000 (December 2015) | |
Subsidiaries | Monki, Weekday, Cheap Monday, COS, & Other Stories, ARKET |
Website | hm.com |
Hennes & Mauritz AB (Swedish pronunciation: [²hɛnːɛs ɔ ˈma.ʊrɪts]; H&M[²hoː.ɛm]) is a Swedish multinational clothing-retail company known for its fast-fashion clothing for men, women, teenagers and children. H&M and its associated companies operate in 62 countries with over 4,500 stores and as of 2015 employed around 132,000 people.[4] It is the second-largest global clothing retailer, just behind Spain-based Inditex (parent company of Zara). The company has a significant online presence, with online shopping available in 33 countries:[5][6]
- 3Concept stores
History
![H&m Apparel H&m Apparel](http://media.meltyfashion.fr/article-693396-fb/h-m-collection-dragon-tattoo-lisbeth-salander.jpg)
The company was founded by Erling Persson in 1947, when he opened his first shop in Västerås, Sweden.[7] The shop, called Hennes (Swedish for 'hers'), exclusively sold women's clothing. A store was opened in Norway in 1964.[8] In 1968, Persson acquired the hunting apparel retailer Mauritz Widforss, which led to the inclusion of a menswear collection in the product range and the name change to Hennes & Mauritz.[7]
The company was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1974.[7] Shortly after, in 1976, the first store outside Scandinavia opened in London.[7][9] H&M continued to expand in Europe, and began to retail online in 1998, when it was able to buy the domain hm.com from a company called A1 in a non-published domain transaction.[citation needed] The two-letter domain was registered in the early 1990s, but data on the first registration is lost.[citation needed] The opening of the first U.S. store on 31 March 2000, on Fifth Avenue in New York marked the start of the expansion outside of Europe.[7]
In 2008, the company announced in a press release that it would begin selling home furnishings.[10] Initially distributed through the company's online catalog, there are now H&M Home stores located internationally.
Following expansion in Asia and the Middle East and the launch of concept stores including COS, Weekday, Monki, and Cheap Monday, in 2009 and 2010, branding consultancy Interbrand ranked the company as the twenty-first most-valuable global brand,[11] making it the highest-ranked retailer in the survey. Its worth was estimated at $12–16 billion.[12][13]
H&M operated 2,325 stores at the end of 2011, and 2,629 stores at the end of August 2012.[14] Its 3,000th store opened in September 2013 in Chengdu, China.[15]
Countries H&M operates in (2015)
H&M store at the Pavilions Shopping Centre, Birmingham, UK
H&M Asia flagship store at Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
H&M Store at Costanera Center Shopping Center, Santiago, Chile.
Map of H&M stores in the U.S. and southern Canada, as of August 2011.
H&M Melbourne
Marketing and collaborations
In November 2004, selected company stores offered an exclusive collection by fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. The press reported large crowds and that the initial inventories in the larger cities were sold out within an hour,[16] although the clothes were still available in less fashion-sensitive areas until the company redistributed them to meet with demand.[17]
In November 2006, the company launched a collection by Stella McCartney and, in November 2006, by avant-garde Dutch designers Viktor & Rolf.
In March 2007, it launched another collaboration designed by the pop star Madonna.[18] In June 2007 the company worked with game developers Maxis to create a stuff pack for the latter's The Sims 2 computer game, H&M Fashion Stuff.[19]
In November 2007, the company launched a collection by Italian designer Roberto Cavalli. It was reported that the clothing sold out very quickly. Also in 2007, another design with Kylie Minogue was launched in Shanghai, China.[20] In the spring of 2008 the Finnish company Marimekko was selected as guest designer and was followed by Japanese Comme des Garçons in the fall.
In 2008, H&M used the song 'Hang On' by British singer-songwriter Lettie as background music to its UK website.[citation needed]
For spring and summer 2009, the British designer Matthew Williamson created two exclusive ranges for the company – the first being a collection of women's clothes released in selected stores. The second collection saw Williamson branch into menswear for the first time, only in selected stores. The second collection also featured swimwear for men and women and was available in every company store worldwide.[21] On 14 November 2009, the company released a limited-edition diffusion collection by Jimmy Choo featuring shoes and handbags, ranging from £30 to £170 including a range of men's shoes. The collection also included clothing designed by Choo for the first time, many garments made from suede and leather, and was available in 200 stores worldwide, including London's Oxford Circus store.[22]Sonia Rykiel also collaborated with the company, by designing a ladies knitwear and lingerie range that was released in selected company stores on 5 December 2009.
For Fall 2010, the company collaborated with French fashion house Lanvin[23] as its 2010 guest designer.
In March 2011, the brand's clothing was featured in an interactive fashion art film by Imagine Fashion called 'Decadent Control', starring Roberto Cavalli, Kirsty Hume, Eva Herzigová and Brad Kroenig. For Spring/Summer 2011, the company collaborated with fashion blogger Elin Kling, which was available at selected stores only. In June 2011, H&M announced a collaboration with Versace that was released on 19 November. Versace also planned a Spring collaboration with H&M that was only available in countries with online sales. Similar to previous collaborations, Versace agreed to let H&M use the renowned name of the company for a previously agreed-upon sum, without actually having a role in the design process.[24] In November 2011, H&M announced a collaboration plan with Marni, that launched in March 2012. The campaign was directed by award-winning director Sofia Coppola.[25]
Trompe-l'œil printed viscose jersey dress by Maison Martin Margiela for H&M, 2012
Lana Del Rey was the face of the fully plotted music video for the 2012 global summer collection, where she also sang a cover of “Blue Velvet”.[26] On 4 October 2012, Japanese Vogue editor Anna Dello Russo launched an accessories collection at H&M as Paris Fashion Week drew to an end. The collection was stocked in 140 H&M stores worldwide and also sold through the H&M website[27] On 12 June 2012, H&M confirmed that it would launch a collaboration with avant-garde label Maison Martin Margiela for a fall rollout. The Maison Martin Margiela collection for H&M hit stores on 15 November 2012.
Beyoncé was the face of H&M in summer 2013. Her campaign, which began in May 2013 was entitled 'Mrs. Carter in H&M', and drew heavily on Knowles' personal style. The singer also included the track 'Standing on the Sun' form her 5th studio album as the campaign soundtrack.[28]Isabel Marant was a collaboration designer for Fall 2013 and for the first time made a men's collection to accompany the women's collection. The collaboration was sold out very quickly in cities across the globe and was heavily anchored in sales online as well.[citation needed]
Alexander Wang was announced as a collaboration to be released 6 November 2014 across the world to a select 250 stores. The announcement came during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California and will be the first collaboration with an American designer.
Balmain was announced as the next collaboration with H&M. The collection was released on 5 November 2015.[29] The announcement came from Balmain designer Olivier Rousteing's Instagram page. The 2015 Christmas campaign was in collaboration with the pop star Katy Perry, who also sang the commercial soundtrack 'Every Day Is A Holiday'.[30]
In November 2016, H&M released a designer line in collaboration with Kenzo.[31] That year H&M released an annual holiday movie directed by Wes Anderson. Titled “Come Together”, the short film stars Adrien Brody as a train conductor who saves Christmas after a blizzard delays the train’s arrival, making the few passengers on board miss part of the holiday.[32][33][34][35]
In February 2017, Zara Larsson designed a 'playful, young, empowering and little glamorous' collection with H&M.[36] After 20 years, Naomi Campbell come back to collaborate for a global female empowerment commercial spot with H&M. She wore clothes that blur the line between masculine and feminine and in the spot-video she also lip-synced 'Wham Rap (Enjoy What You Do)' by Wham!.[citation needed]
In September 2019, H&M halted it's leather purchase from Brazil in response to 2019 Amazon Rainforest Wildfires.[37] The company issued an email statement on the halt, 'The ban will be active until there are credible assurance systems in place to verify that the leather does not contribute to environmental harm in the Amazon'. The company imports only a small fraction of its leather needs from Brazil.[38]
Concept stores
In addition to the H&M brand, the company consists of five individual brands with separate concepts.[39] Q4 2016 saw the hoarding of a new H&M concept in The Dubai Mall come up, labelled 'H&M Details'.
COS
COS launched its flagship store on London’s Regent Street in March 2007 with a catwalk show at the Royal Academy.[40] Its concept is encompassed by minimalist style inspired by architecture, graphics, and design.[41][40] It specialises in modern clothing pieces for men and women that are less trend-oriented than other similarly priced labels.[42] COS makes clothing that can be worn beyond the season.[43] COS has 197 stores in 34 countries[44] in Europe, Asia, North America, Australia and the Middle East and currently retails online to 19 markets via cosstores.com.
& Other Stories
& Other Stories launched in Spring 2013, with seven stores opening throughout Europe.[45] Its Regent Street store opened on 8 March 2013,[46] with other locations in Barcelona, Berlin, Copenhagen, Dublin, Milan, Paris and Stockholm.[47] & Other Stories offers women's clothing, shoes, bags, accessories, and beauty products, with a focus on high quality throughout a wide price range.[47] In March 2016, it collaborated with the designer label Rodarte.[48] & Other Stories has 46 stores in 12 countries,[49] as well as e-commerce in 14 at stories.com (formerly at otherstories.com).[50]
ARKET
The first ARKET store was opened in Regent Street in August 2017, having been in preparations since June 2015.[51][52] The brand is labeled 'a modern-day market'[53] and houses a line known as the 'archive', in which each item is known by a nine-digit code organised into department, category, product, and material.[54] ARKET also sells children's clothing and homewares, and has an in-store café.[54]
FaBric Scandinavien AB
In 2008, H&M purchased 60 percent of shares in the Swedish fashion company FaBric Scandinavien AB and bought the remaining shares in 2010 with a price totaling SEK552 million ($62.3 million). The company's three brands- Cheap Monday, Monki, and Weekday- continue to be run as separate concepts.[55]
Cheap Monday
Cheap Monday, known for its distinctive skull logo, is a full fashion brand launched in 2004.[56] The brand is available from many retailers worldwide as well as its own stores and e-commerce site cheapmonday.com.[39]
Monki
Monki in Tsuen Wan Plaza, Hong Kong
Monki is 'a wild and crazy international retail concept that believes that, it needs to fight ordinary and boost imagination with an experience out of the ordinary'.[57] The brand sells fashion for young women in stores in 13 markets, and is available online in 18 markets at monki.com.
Weekday
Weekday, styled as WEEKDAY, 'carries in-house brands such as MTWTFSS WEEKDAY and Weekday Collection as well as external brands.[39] The brand has stores in 9 markets and is available online in 18 markets at weekday.com and in 140 markets at asos.com.
Labour practices
In August 2011, nearly 200 workers passed out in one week at a Cambodian factory supplying H&M. Fumes from chemicals, poor ventilation, malnutrition and even 'mass hysteria' have all been blamed for making workers ill. The minimum wage in Cambodia is the equivalent of just $66 (£42) a month, a level that human rights groups say is not even half that required to meet basic needs.[58]
Bangladeshi and international labor groups in 2011 put forth a detailed safety proposal which entailed the establishment of independent inspections of garment factories. The plan called for inspectors to have the power to close unsafe factories. The proposal entailed a legally binding contract between suppliers, customers, and unions. At a meeting in 2011 in Dhaka, major European and North American retailers, including H&M, rejected the proposal. Further efforts by unions to advance the proposal after numerous and deadly factory fires have been rejected.[59]
The Guardian wrote that in a conscious actions sustainability report for 2012, H&M published a list of factories supplying 95% of its garments. Most retailers and brands do not share this information, citing commercial confidentiality as a reason.[60]
On 2 January 2013, The Ecologist reported[61] allegations by Anti-Slavery International that H&M is continuing its association with the Uzbek government in exploiting child and adult forced labour as cotton harvesters in Uzbekistan.[62]
After the April 2013 Savar building collapse H&M and other retailers signed on to the Accord on Factory and Building Safety in Bangladesh. On 19 May 2013, a textile factory that produced apparel for H&M in Phnom Penh, Cambodia collapsed injuring several people.[63] The incident has raised concerns regarding industrial safety regulations.
On 25 November 2013, H&M's global head of sustainability committed[64][65] that H&M, as the world's second-largest clothing retailer, will aim to pay all textile workers 'living wage' by 2018, stating that governments are responding too slowly to poor working conditions in Bangladesh among other Asian countries where many clothing retailers source a majority if not all of their garments. Wages were increased in Bangladesh from 3,000 takas ($40) to 5,300 takas ($70) a month in late 2013.[66]
In September 2015, CleanClothes.org, an NGO involved in garment labor working conditions, reported on a lack of specific fire safety renovations in H&M suppliers' factories.[67]
In June 2016, SumOfUs launched a campaign to pressure H&M to honour the commitment to protect Bangladesh's garment workers which it had signed onto following the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh in 2013, which killed over 1100 people, mostly garment workers, in unsafe factories housed in an eight-storey building not designed for factories. SumOfUs alleged that 'H&M is drastically behind schedule in fixing the safety hazards its workers have to face every day.'[68]
In February 2017, The Guardian reported children were employed to make H&M products in Myanmar and were paid as little as 13p (about 15cents US) an hour – half the full legal minimum wage.[69]
Other issues
- On 6 January 2010, it was reported that unsold or refunded clothing and other items in one New York City store were cut up before being discarded, presumably to prevent resale or use.[70]
- On 24 January 2012, the company was reported to have stolen the work of a UK-based artist, Tori LaConsay, using it on multiple items without compensating her.[71]
- In August 2013, the Swedish fashion chain withdrew faux-leather headdresses from Canadian stores after consumers complained the items, part of the company's summer music festival collection, were insulting to Canada's Aboriginal peoples.[72]
- On 6 November 2015, the H&M South Africa division had been accused with racism for lack of black models in their photoshoots,[73] later stating that white models convey a more 'positive Image' than that of black models.[74]
- On 8 January 2018, H&M showcased on their official United Kingdom website[75] a picture of a young black child wearing a green hoodie reading, 'Coolest Monkey in the Jungle,' which sparked controversy,[76][77][78][79][80][81] notably in the United States due to the cognition of 'monkey' being used to describe a black person,[75] though the term 'cheeky monkey' is often used in the UK to refer to a little child regardless of race.[citation needed] In response, singers such as The Weeknd and G-Eazy boycotted the company by ending their partnerships with H&M over the image.[82][83][84] H&M later released an apology: 'This image has now been removed from all H&M channels and we apologise to anyone this may have offended.'[85][86][87][88] The mother of the model urged people to 'stop crying wolf,' deeming it 'an unnecessary issue.'[89] After the allegation of racism, H&M stores were vandalized and looted in South Africa. In response, H&M temporarily closed stores in South Africa.[90][91]
- On 13 July 2019, H&M docked the pay and suspended several union staff in three of its stores in New Zealand because they were wearing 'Living Wage' stickers, as part of a wider industrial dispute.[92][93]
Philanthropy
Since January 2012 H&M introduced the H&M Design Award, an annual design prize for fashion graduates. The prize is established to support young designers with the beginning of their career.[94]
Starting in February 2013, H&M will offer patrons a voucher in exchange for used garments. Donated garments will be processed by I:CO, a retailer that repurposes and recycles used clothing with the goal of creating a zero-waste economy. The initiative is similar to a clothes-collection voucher program launched in April 2012 by Marks & Spencer in partnership with Oxfam.[95][96][97]
In April 2014, H&M joined Zara and other apparel companies in changing their supply chain to avoid endangered forests. H&M teamed with Canopy, a non-profit, to remove endangered and ancient forests from their dissolvable pulp supply chain for their viscose and rayon fabrics.[98]
In August 2015, H&M announced that it will award a million-euro annual prize to advance recycling technology and techniques.[99]
The H&M Foundation is a non-profit foundation which was established in order to implement positive change and improve living standards, such as education for children, worldwide access to clean water, strengthening women on a global scale, and being environmentally aware. It is privately funded by the Persson Family, founders, and owners of H&M.Since 2013, the Persson Family has made huge contributions to the foundation, donating SEK1.1 billion (US$154 million) to the H&M Foundation.
See also
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