Shaping Sustainable Fashion

Alison Gwilt

• 25 juni 2012
• 9781136454455

Samenvatting:

The production, use and eventual disposal of most clothing is environmentally damaging, and many fashion and textile designers are becoming keen to employ more sustainable strategies in their work. This book provides a practical guide to the ways in which designers are creating fashion with less waste and greater durability.

Based on the results of extensive research into lifecycle approaches to sustainable fashion, the book is divided into four sections:

• source: explores the motivations for the selection of materials for fashion garments and suggests that garments can be made from materials that also assist in the management of textile waste
• make: discusses the differing approaches to the design and manufacture of sustainable fashion garments that can also provide the opportunity for waste control and minimization
• use: explores schemes that encourage the consumer to engage in slow fashion consumption
• last: examines alternative solutions to the predictable fate of most garments - landfill.