Other fashion systems -- Sustainability and fashion -- Nature's systems -- A whole new cloth : politics and the fashion system -- The real challenge of sustainability -- Economic growth and the shape of sustainable fashion : contextualizing fashion sustainability in terms of consumer-led economic growth -- Prospect, seed and activate : advancing design for sustainability in fashion -- African second-hand clothes : Mima-te and the development of sustainable fashion -- Fashion and sustainability in the context of gender -- Spirituality and ethics : theopraxy in the future of sustainability within the supply chain -- Consumption studies : the force of the ordinary -- Accidentally sustainable? : ethnographic approaches to clothing practices -- The world in a wardrobe : expressing notions of care in the economy and everyday life -- Establishing the history of sustainability in fashion -- Branding sustainability, business models in search of clarity -- Towards fashion media for sustainability -- The role of science and technology for sustainable fashion -- The new synthetics : could synthetic biology lead to sustainable textile manufacturing? -- The fashion system through a lens of zero-waste fashion design -- Fashion brands and workers' rights -- Fashion as material -- Fashion design -- Fashion and community -- Openness -- Mending -- "A suit, of his own earning" : fashion supremacy and sustainable fashion activism -- The futures of futures studies in fashion.
Summary:
"The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women's independence, and the establishment of significant infrastructures in poorer countries. Yet the fashion industry is also a significant contributor to the degradation of natural systems, with the associated environmental footprint of clothing high in comparison with other products. This comprehensive handbook recognizes the complexity of aligning fashion with sustainability. It explores fashion and sustainability at the levels of products, processes, and paradigms and takes a truly multi-disciplinary approach to critically question and suggest creative responses to issues of fashion in a post-growth society, fashion, diversity and equity and fashion, fluidity and balance across natural, social and economic systems"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.