Sustainability and the Fashion Industry - Can Fashion Save the World?

There is widespread rhetorical agreement that the fashion industry must get itself onto a more ethical and sustainable footing. What does this mean in practice, and how can this be achieved in different regions around the world?

List of contents

Chapter 1: Framing Regenerative Fashion. Chapter 2: Writing Sustainable Fashion Worlds. Chapter 3: Disrupting Fashion-as-Usual in the Southern Hemisphere. Chapter 4: Provenance and Production in Scotland's Fashion Sector: Shifting Stories. Chapter 5: Designer Intent and Postmodern Fashion: A Postconservation Approach. Chapter 6: Overconsumption in the Global Fashion Industry: Desire, Power and Capitalism. Chapter 7: Holistic Sustainability in Fashion(?): The Case of Vogue Talents. Chapter 8: Educating Fashion for a Sustainable Future. Chapter 9: Sustainability and the Fast Fashion Business Model. Chapter 10: Sustainable Consumer Behaviour in Fashion: Enabling and Disabling Factors. Chapter 11: Sustainability and the Secondhand Business Model. Chapter 12: Pricing and Sustainable Fashion

About the author

Annick Schramme is Professor and Academic Director of the Master Cultural Management and the Master Responsible Fashion Management at the University of Antwerp/ Antwerp Management School, Belgium.
Nathalie Verboven is a Researcher and Teaching Assistant in Cultural Management and the Summer School on Responsible Fashion Management at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Summary

There is widespread rhetorical agreement that the fashion industry must get itself onto a more ethical and sustainable footing. What does this mean in practice, and how can this be achieved in different regions around the world?

Product details

• Authors: Annick Verboven Schramme
• Assisted by: Annick Schramme (Editor), Schramme Annick (Editor), Nathalie Verboven (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.06.2024
• EAN: 9781032641102
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3264110-2
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Responsible Fashion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Advertising, marketing; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, History, Business & Economics / General, The environment, Humanities, Sales & marketing management, Fashion & society, Fashion & beauty industries, Sales & marketing, Sales and marketing, Hospitality and service industries, Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business, Business & the environment, 'Green' approaches to business, Sales and marketing management, Cultural studies: dress and society, Fashion;Industry;Ethical;Sustainable;Future