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Fashion & Sustainability : Design for Change.
Title:
Fashion & Sustainability : Design for Change.
Author:
Fletcher, Kate.
ISBN:
9781780671963
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (220 pages)
Contents:
Copyright -- Title Page -- Foreword by Paul Hawken -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Transforming fashion products -- Chapter 1. Materials -- Chapter 2. Processes -- Chapter 3. Distribution -- Chapter 4. Consumer care -- Chapter 5. Disposal -- Part 2: Transforming fashion systems -- Chapter 6. Adaptability -- Chapter 7. Optimized lifetimes -- Chapter 8. Low-impact use -- Chapter 9. Services and sharing -- Chapter 10. Local -- Chapter 11. Biomimicry -- Chapter 12. Speed -- Chapter 13. Needs -- Chapter 14. Engaged -- Part 3: Transforming fashion design practice -- Chapter 15. Designer as communicator-educator -- Chapter 16. Designer as facilitator -- Chapter 17. Designer as activist -- Chapter 18. Designer as entrepreneur -- Glossary -- Endnotes -- Index -- Picture credits -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
This book examines how sustainability has the potential to transform both the fashion system and the innovators who work within it.Sustainability is arguably the defining theme of the twenty-first century. The issues in fashion are broad-ranging and include labor abuses, toxic chemicals, and conspicuous consumption, giving rise to an undeniable tension between fashion and sustainability. The book is organized in three parts. The first part is concerned with transforming fashion products across the garment's lifecycle and includes innovation in materials, manufacture, distribution, use, and disposal. The second part looks at ideas that are transforming the fashion system at root into something more sustainable, including new business models that reduce material throughput. The third section is concerned with transforming the role of fashion designers and looks to examples where the designer changes from a stylist or shaper of things into a communicator, activist, or facilitator.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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