
Technology, Sustainability and the Fashion Industry
Can Fashion Save the World?
- 314 pages
- English
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Technology, Sustainability and the Fashion Industry
Can Fashion Save the World?
About this book
There is widespread rhetorical agreement that the fashion industry must get itself onto a more sustainable footing. What does this mean in practice, and how can sustainability be achieved in different regions around the world?
This book brings together expert scholars and reflective practitioners via a network of dialogue and exchange to help drive forward a sustainable future for the fashion industry. With a focus on technological innovation, the contributions to this book provide a range of case studies from design thinking, through digital clothing and inclusive fashion.
This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the fields of circular business and the fashion industry, and provides a unique resource for readers seeking to understand more about the need for responsible fashion and how technology might be able to help.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Digital Clothes and the Future of Fashion
- 2 Digitization of Fashion Design Education Covid-19 and the Digital Shift
- 3 Technology and the Future of the Fashion Designer
- 4 Fashion Resilience
- 5 The Future of Fashion Events: The Case of Mercedes-Benz Prague Fashion Week
- 6 Digital Tools in the Fashion Industry: Fish Skin Garments and Ainu Fish Skin Traditions
- 7 Intergenerational Workforces in the Fashion Industry
- 8 Ecological Crisis and Fashion Design Education: A Plant Metaphor
- 9 Future-focused Sustainable Fashion Design Thinking in Education
- 10 Case Studies for Sustainable Creative Fashion Design Education
- 11 Idealized Body Image and Fashion Design Education
- 12 Haunting Alternative Fashion Futures
- 13 Analysing Distributed Sartorial Networks
- 14 Collaborative and Fair Trade Models in the Fashion Industry: The Case of Peruvian Connection
- 15 Inclusive Fashion and Traditional Jewellery
- 16 Nationalist Politics versus Global Inclusivity: The Case of Indian Fashion Magazines
- 17 Breast Reconstruction, ‘Going-Flat’, Femininity and the Fashion Industry
- Index