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Fashion & Sustainability
Kate Fletcher
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Description for Fashion & Sustainability
Paperback. Examines how sustainability has the potential to transform both the fashion system and the innovators who work within it. This title deals with transforming fashion products across the garment's lifecycle and includes innovation in materials, manufacture, distribution, use and re-use. Num Pages: 192 pages, 150 illustrations, 100 in colour. BIC Classification: AKTA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 174 x 16. Weight in Grams: 508.
This book examines how sustainability has the potential to transform both the fashion system and the innovators who work within it. Sustainability is arguably the defining theme of the twenty-first century. The issues in fashion are broad-ranging and include labour abuses, toxic chemicals use and conspicuous consumption, giving rise to an undeniable tension between fashion and sustainability. The book is organized in three parts. The first part is concerned with transforming fashion products across the garment's lifecycle and includes innovation in materials, manufacture, distribution, use and re-use. The second part looks at ideas ... Read more
This book examines how sustainability has the potential to transform both the fashion system and the innovators who work within it. Sustainability is arguably the defining theme of the twenty-first century. The issues in fashion are broad-ranging and include labour abuses, toxic chemicals use and conspicuous consumption, giving rise to an undeniable tension between fashion and sustainability. The book is organized in three parts. The first part is concerned with transforming fashion products across the garment's lifecycle and includes innovation in materials, manufacture, distribution, use and re-use. The second part looks at ideas ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Laurence King Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781856697545
SKU
V9781856697545
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Ref
99-99
About Kate Fletcher
Kate Fletcher is Reader in Sustainable fashion at London College of Fashion and director of design for sustainable fashion consultancy, Slow Fashion. Her work in business, education, policy and research has been at the forefront of sustainability ideas and research practice for 15 years. Lynda Grose is a professor at California College of the Arts. As a practising ... Read more
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