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'Sustainable Fashion: Why Now? is a critical read for anyone with ties to the fashion industry: designers, marketers, product developers, retailers, teachers, students, and consumers that want to become involved with balancing the fashion desires of the individual with the need to be a steward of our environment.'Fashion Practice
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Through a collection of specially commissioned essays, Sustainable Fashion: Why Now? examines the issues of sustainability that designers, product developers, and consumers confront as they go about their business of creating, wearing, and recycling clothing and fashion. In a broader sense, the book considers what "sustainability" means alongside "fashion"-two seemingly contradictory concepts as fashion is all about change and sustainability, is all about preservation. Through a lively range of perspectives, the authors engage their readers in a dialogue on sustainable fashion that generates new ideas on how to produce fashion with a sense of ethics, organic or renewable resources, and socially responsible manufacturing techniques. The format of the book is an anthology, divided into three sections, each focused on an in-depth exploration of sustainable opportunity: "Connecting with Consumers on Issues Relating to Sustainable Practices," "Production and Economic Processes in the Global Economy," and "The Environment, the Planet, and the Materials Used in Fashion Making." This structure provides an interconnected and circular way to explore the creation and practice of sustainable fashion that is not possible through old, linear models of understanding the fashion industry.Features- Illustrated Best Practices that demonstrate, through interviews and examples, sustainable business practices in real-life scenarios.- Examples of syllabi, assignments, in-class activities, discussion questions, and worksheets.- Comprehensive lists of key terms and websites for more information.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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As a final year fashion student i found this book to be absolutely key to my understanding of one of the issues at the forefront of the retail and fashion industry and referenced the authors theories in many of my final year reports. The content of this book would be beneficial to the greater public, and could be marketed to attract the consumer not within the midst of the fashion industry.
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A New Definition
4 Jan 2009
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Various perspectives, ideas and practices of professionals in the fashion field address the importance of sustainability as it pertains to the fashion industry through its three main divisions found within the text. The traditional concept of fashion is challenged to a new height where present development, manufacturing, shipping and merchandising of textiles and products is being openly questioned and answered with a variety of possibilities. Here fashion is re-envisioned through the investigation of new or different resources that can be easily renewed; through design, sewing techniques and recycling, eliminating waste in a garments production to its life's end and rebirth into a new creation. Our world's present environmental situation can no longer be ignored, making the time for sustainable awareness and action regarding fashion around the globe everyone's business.Practicing environmental stewardship in fashion from beginning to beginning allows each person/consumer to think outside the box, to be empowered to make a difference to help the earth, sustain ourselves and still allow fashion to thrive through a new definition.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Excellent resource for sustainable fashion!
9 Oct 2011
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I am very pleased with this book and am using it in my graduate research on sustainable fashion. It is an excellent source of information and provides solid, scholarly viewpoints on sustainability covering a variety of topics such as zero-waste and slow design, fibers, consumerism, economic impacts, regulations, and technology to name a few. Whether you are just discovering sustainable fashion or have already been researching this subject, this is a "must-have" resource for your library!
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