Synopses & Reviews
Through a collection of essays, Sustainable Fashion: Why Now? examines the issues of sustainability that designers, product developers, and consumers confront as they create, wear, and recycle clothing and fashion. Through a lively range of perspectives, the contributors discuss new ideas for producing fashion with organic or renewable resources using socially responsible manufacturing techniques. Divided into three sections, this book provides an interconnected way to explore sustainable fashion through people, processes, and the environment.
About the Author
Janet Hethorn, University of Delaware
Connie Ulasewicz, San Francisco State University
Foreword by Yvon Chouinard, Founder and Owner of Patagonia, Inc.
Table of Contents
Contents
- The Fashion of Sustainability
- Fashion, Social Marketing, and the Eco-Savvy Shopper
- Consideration of Consumer Desire
- Marketing and the Ethical Consumer
- A Technology Enabled Sustainable Fashion System: Fashion's Future
- Mixing Metaphors in the Fiber, Textile, and Apparel Complex: Toward a More Sustainable Fashion
- Economy of Scale, The China Context
- Creating Fashion without the Creation of Fabric Waste
- Economic Impact of Textile and Clothing Recycling
- Developing Strategies for a Typology of Sustainable Fashion Design
- Exploration of Materials: An Inspirational Overview
- Environmental Impact of Textiles
- Fibers: Clean and Green Fiber Options
- Environmental Stewardship and Sustainable Sourcing
- Recycle and Reuse as Design Potential