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Informationen zum Autor Alice Payne is Professor and Dean of the School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include the fashion design process and the problem of design for sustainability within the fashion context. Alice is also an award-winning designer, investigating design for sustainability in fashion via practice-led research.50 in-depth interviews with international fashion practitioners explore the technical and creative processes of the fashion industry and their ethical and environmental implications. Zusammenfassung How do fashion designers design? How does design function within the industry? How can design practices open up sustainable pathways for fashion’s future? Designing Fashion's Future responds to these questions to offer a fresh understanding of design practices within the sprawling, shifting fashion system.Fashion design is typically viewed as the rarefied practice of elite professionals, or else as a single stage within the apparel value chain. Alice Payne shows how design needn't be reduced to a set of decisions by a designer or design team, but can instead be examined as a process, object, or agent that shapes fashion’s material and symbolic worlds. Designing Fashion's Future draws on more than 50 interviews with industry professionals based in Australia, Asia, North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom. These diverse perspectives from multinational retailers, independent and experimental contexts ground the discussion in contemporary industry practices. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Fashion Design Beyond the Designer2. Fashion Systems Thinking3. Designers, Named and Nameless4. Fashion’s Designerly Narratives5. Designing in Fast Fashion6. Design for Sustainability as Strategies and Tactics7. Weightless Fashion8. Taming Fashion by Design9. Rewilding Fashion by Design10. Conclusion
